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NEWS: The Swarm (Font 8B/+) in one session by Puccio

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 UKC News 24 Feb 2015
Alex Puccio on The Swarm, ~8B/+, Buttermilks, USA, 3 kbAlex Puccio needed only one session to make the second female ascent, after Ashima Shiraishi, of The Swarm, ~8B/+, at the Buttermilks, CA.
Alex took her chance when the weather quickly went from way too warm to bitterly cold.
Having previously done two 8B+'s and five 8B's, she has now done as...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=69535
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Is it me or has the standard of female climbing rocketed recently? This story is frankly unbelievable! Well done Alex.
 robin mueller 25 Feb 2015
In reply to A Longleat Boulderer:

> This story is frankly unbelievable!

Well I believe it!
 Andy Say 25 Feb 2015
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Having seen her 'perform' in Arco: she is a monster! Good effort.
 deepsoup 25 Feb 2015
In reply to robin mueller:
I believe it too, so maybe not quite incredible. ;O)
Hugely impressive though. Kudos!
 Chris the Tall 25 Feb 2015
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Is that a massive snowdrift or a large inflatable balloon that's underneath her ?
 jsmcfarland 25 Feb 2015
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I reckon the Pooch is still got a hell of alot of harder climbing ahead of her. All the hard stuff she's done recently has still made it look pretty easy. I remember in video of her before she had done any v(13?) and she was saying how her biggest problem was her mental game and how she was going to work on it. Result!
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