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.
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
The Ticklist #10 - Rocky Mountain Bouldering, Dolomites Multi-pitch and Aidan Roberts Climb
In this week's Ticklist, we have our customary ascents from Rocky Mountain National Park, a new problem from the on-form Aidan Roberts and a desperate new multi-pitch in the Dolomites...
Isabelle Faus has climbed her 3rd Font 8B+ with an ascent of Memory is Parallax in Rocky Mountain National Park. The problem was originally climbed by Dave Graham in 2011. This was Isabelle's 3rd 8B+ after climbing Amandla in Rocklands in...
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