Spidey 8B+ for Isabelle Faus
American climber Isabelle Faus has made the first female ascent of Spidey 8B+, in Nomad Cave, Clear Creek Canyon, Colorado.
Isabelle Faus has made the first female ascent of Fred Nicole's Amandla, ~8B+, at Roadcrew in Rocklands, South Africa, thereby becoming the fifth* female to climb this grade.
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Isabelle has previously done two ~8B's; Epochalipse, at Flagstaff Mountain, and Nuthin but sunshine, in the Rocky Mountain National Park, both near her home in Boulder, Colorado.
The four other female climbers who have done 8B+ are:
Tomoko Ogawa - Catharsis, Shiobara, 2012
Ashima Shiraishi - Golden Shadow, Rocklands, 2014
Shauna Coxsey - New Base Line, Magic Wood, 2014
Alex Puccio - Jade and The Wheel of Chaos, both in the RMNP, 2014
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