Jakob Schubert prima rp di Neanderthal, il 9b di Chris Sharma a Santa Linya

Come per Jakob Schubert, che all’inizio di dicembre 2018 si era aggiudicato la prima ripetizione di El bon combat, la super via di Chris Sharma a Cova de Ocell che l’austriaco considera 9a+. Adesso la climbing machine austriaca ha preso di mira Neanderthal, un "mostro di resistenza di 115 movimenti" liberato sempre da Sharma nel 2009 e finora irripetuto.

A conferma della sua forma straordinaria il 27enne ne è venuto a capo in soli sei giorni di tentativi, salendo quindi il suo quarto 9b dopo Fight or Flight ad Oliana (2014), La planta de Shiva a Villanueva del Rosario (2016) e Stoking the Fire a Santa Linya (2018). Visto quanto ci ha messo per ripetere Neanderthal, forse è giunto il momento di alzare seriamente la posta su un'altra king line…

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I stuck the dyno!! 2nd ascent of Neanderthal [9b] in Santa Linya A king line opened by @chris_sharma in 2009 On my first day working this 115 moves (!!) monster I thought it will take a while to be able to send. But I quickly made a lot of progress and today (my 6th day on the route) I stuck the crux move and kept it together until the top. Such a sick route!! Long routes like this take a lot of psychological effort but make the feeling of reaching the victory jug even more rewarding I have to add that I used one kneepad for my ascent, actually the first time I ever send something hard with such a thing on, but it felt really useful. I did two knee bars on the route both would be more painful without it so I decided it‘s time.. • Video by @catalunyaclimb during my ascent. Thanks for the cheering @georgparma @michael.piccolruaz @alexandra.ladurner @hugoparmentier @gazparry and everyone else • #rockclimbing #send #whataday #climbingvideo #9b #sopsyched

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