Pietro Vidi sends his first 8C+ boulder, Fuck the System at Fionnay, Switzerland

It was only a matter of time, but in truth Pietro Vidi required no time at all: after six 8Cs, five of which in the last 12 month alone, the 21-year-old Italian climber has now entered the upper echelons of bouldering by sending his first 8C+, Fuck the System.

This problem was an old Dave Graham project at Fionnay in Switzerland, basically the sit start to Graham's Foundation's Edge (8C), first climbed by Shawn Raboutou in 2021. Vidi repeated Foundation's Edge last summer and had used the opportunity to try the sit, but was unable to work out the tricky kneebar crux.

After a season in Bavona with the "master", Dave Graham himself, Vidi was certain he'd improved technically and on his return to Fionnay he quickly unlocked the knee sequence. the key sequence. A tiny foothold slightly crumbled making the technical crux even more low percentage, but despite this he made it through the crux on several occasions, only to drop off higher up. A "real battle" began against adverse conditions and at one point the 21-year-old simply convinced himself he'd make it to the top and "float through the sequence on a random try." His first 8C+, certainly not his last.

 

 

 

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