VIDEO: Minimalomania, 8C+/9A traverse by Pirmin Bertle

by Björn Pohl - UKC Mar/2013
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+Pirmin Bertle on Minimalomania, 8C+/9A trav., Lindental, Switzerland, 128 kb
Pirmin Bertle on Minimalomania, 8C+/9A trav., Lindental, Switzerland
Björn Pohl - UKC, Mar 2013
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Pirmin Bertle has made the first ascent of Minimalomania an 8C+/9A traverse in the Lindental, near Bern, Switzerland.

Pirmin, who is a German living in Switzerland, originally planned to link his new four move 8B+ start into the whole of E la nave va pił avanti , Hanspeter Bodmer's extended version of Fred Nicole's E la nave va, but to have the power needed to be able to execute the first few moves, at the same time as keeping the endurance necessary to complete the 80m traverse turned out to be too hard for now.

Here's the vide and the full story:

Pirmin Bertle is sponsored by: Edelrid and Maiday


* Forums ( Read More... | 8 comments, 26 Mar 2013 )
I'm not sure if it's me getting a bit obsessive about over use of chalk but what if people were to go around putting dollops of paint all over every boulder we could find? Would we think that this is acceptable? I think...
martinshyde - 26 Mar 2013

I had a project like this too! it was a 100m long traverse with font 8c moves the whole way... then i cut off the last 40m...and the first 60m... sent on the first try! Glad he said about manning up and stop cutting!...
Ian Bentley - 15 Mar 2013

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