Stefano Ghisolfi sends 9a in a weekend at Covolo

9a in just one weekend. This was the difficult objective, set and achieved, by Stefano Ghisolfi who last Sunday managed to pull off a fast repeat of L'Attimo at Covolo. The Turin-based climber reached the crag, hidden between the folds of the Vicenza foothills, on Saturday for the first time and his initial attempts looked promising. The route is a combination of two 8c’s, Nagay and Tentacoli, freed in 2012 by Silvio Reffo, and Ghisolfi only just failed to flash Nagay, peeling off due to a wet hold.

On Sunday Ghisolfi climbed past the wet crux and clipped the chain on his 4th attempt, confirming once again that he is currently one of the strongest Italian sports climbers. This summer Ghisolfi made the first Italian repeat of Biographie, the 9a+ reference route at Céüse in France, while this weekend he will compete in the Lead World Cup at Wujiang in China.