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Jorg Verhoeven climbs The Wheel of life, ~8C, HMC, Grampians, AustraliaVideo

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In November 2015, Jorg Verhoeven repeated James Kassay's direct variation of Dai Koyamada's 60+ move roof climb The wheel of life, ~8C/9a, in the Hollow mountain cave in the Grampians, Australia. Now there's a video.

At first I thought "The BIG 4" was referring to some four ground breaking climbs in the world, especially as he has already freed the Nose, which would fit nicely up there, but apparently there is a Grampian's Big 4:

Ammagamma, 8B

Groove Train, 8c

Wheel of Life, 8C/9a

Eye of the Tiger, 8a

Jorg climbed all of the above.

 

Jorg Verhoeven is sponsored by: La Sportiva, Marmot and Petzl


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27 Feb, 2016
Nicely made video. I like the way it wasn't all close up and you could see the problem in its entirety. Interesting the knee bar without a kneepad too. Looked like a pad would've helped. I wonder if that would be considered not the way to do it perhaps? No one's repeated Megos's problems yet I take it. Thought that Wheelchair would deserve a spot in the Big 4 (or 5) seeing as its the hardest of the lot.
28 Feb, 2016
Maybe it was a plug for one of the Halls Gap Campgrounds.........http://www.big4.com.au/caravan-parks/vic/grampians/grampians-parkgate-resort
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