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Jacopo Larcher has made the first tradtional ascent of Alessandro Manini's route Lapoterapia, 8c, at Osso, Italy. He has also repeated the very thin and technical Psychogramm, 8b+, at the Bürser Platte, for a nice double. Its neighbour Prinzip Hoffnung is perhaps more familiar.

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Yet another European crusher I have never heard of before. Damn :o

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Amazing effort by Jacopo on Lapoterapia. It's certainly not a euro-style easy crack tick. Relatively short, some really hard moves and quite a bit of proper jamming! Although granted, there isn't any nasty sketchy thin hand jamming...

Will be interesting to see what he does next year with those skills.

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Saw this guy at Shafton in Northumberland destroying hard problems with ease. Bigger than John dunne very impressive I thought he would be shite giving the size of this guy!