UKC

Stefano Ghisolfi has repeated Chris Sharma's Demencia Senil, 9a+, in the Laboratory sector at Margalef, Spain.
This is most likely the 4th ascent after Sharma, Iker Pou and Ramon Julian Puigblanque, and I wouldn't be very surprised if we'll soon see a fifth ascent by Gabriele Moroni who has been...

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In reply to UKC News:

Here's some cool footage of Iker on the route
youtube.com/watch?v=rGHlYfPKhio&

In reply to cb_6:

I'm always impressed by that footage of Iker Pou doing this route. The route looks absolutely savage, from the first campus moves on pockets, that first mono cross through and that jump that comes after all that hard climbing. Some of the most impressive hard climbing on video I've seen.

In reply to cb_6: Thanks for the link. That really is something else. The pockets look brutal

In reply to Fishmate:


No excuse for any of those guys not to do the second ascent of Akira is there?

In reply to Toerag:

It's hard to imagine what they couldn't do

I've never found any footage of Akira that clearly shows the holds but if you told me it was FB9b I wouldn't doubt you.