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NEWS: Jungle boogie, 9a+, by Sachi Amma

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 UKC News 17 Sep 2015
Sachi Amma on Jungle Boogie, 9a+. Céüse, France, 3 kbSachi Amma has repeated Adam Ondra's Jungle boogie, a pure power endurance 9a+ route just left of Biographie at Céüse, France. 

According to the man himself, it was nothing less than a miracle: 

Finally... I still can not believe it happened. It is raining...

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 stp 17 Sep 2015
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Cool stuff. Ten 5.15s in 2015, ambitious stuff. Still got quite a way to go I think. And I can't imagine that grade being particularly easy in the Frankenjura.

So was this the second ascent? First done in 2012 I presume: the date the video was posted.

The video of Ondra doing it is pretty strange. Apart from one little section it mostly looks like he could be bumbling up an HVS.
DanGreb 17 Sep 2015
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It will be interesting so see how he's going to grade it. He spent more than 3 weeks on Jungle Boogie. From what I remember he sent Sharma's 9a+ Catxasa in 3 or 4 goes and Seleccio Anal another 9a+ on his 2nd go.

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