4th female ascent of Era Vella, 9a, by Anak Verhoeven

22nd April, 2015

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Anak Verhoeven © Verhoeven coll. — Anak Verhoeven
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18 year old Anak Verhoeven from Belgium has made the 4th female ascent of Chris Sharma's Era Vella, 9a, at Margalef, Spain.

No other 9a has seen as many female ascents, and lately it has really gained in popularity. I guess I'd go there myself if I wanted to do a long, beautiful 9a without any real stopper moves. If I could...

Anak is better known as a competition climber currently ranked 4th in the world.

According to her website, Anak is climbing for Jesus. Seems to have worked wonders.

Source: Belclimb

Anak Verhoeven is sponsored by: Haglofs, La Sportiva, Max Climbing, Petzl and Pure Top

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Jon Read

22 Apr, 2015

What's with the unnecessary remark about her faith? I'm no supporter of religion, but I don't understand why you need to mention it at all (let alone try and get a joke out of it?).

teltrabm

22 Apr, 2015

is she related to jorg?

Tom F Harding

22 Apr, 2015

Well he could have said it 'Seems to have worked miracles'.

Harald

22 Apr, 2015

She's Belgian, Jorg Dutch. No relation as far as I know.

deacondeacon

22 Apr, 2015

Well her website does have its own 'faith' page, and so I imagine it's an important aspect to her persona. Also in her biog it states 'I climb for Jesus' but what does that mean? Why would Jesus care if she can climb 9a or not?

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