Bound By Tradition - Larcher and Pearson discuss Tribe
Jacopo Larcher and James Pearson sit down and discuss Tribe, a route that Jacopo made the first ascent of in 2019 and a contender for the hardest trad route in the world. James repeated the line in 2020 and believed it to have the hardest set of moves that he had done on a trad route.
Whilst Jacopo declined to grade the route, it's believed that the difficulty is somewhere in the 9a/9a+ region. Both ascensionists had previously climbed a selection of other outrageously difficult and dangerous lines - both of them have climbed Rhapsody (E11 7a), for instance. The pair talk about the differences between a first ascent and repeating a line, what makes the route special, and share their experience of the route.