I think there is some feeling it may have been undergraded if anything. The consensus seems to be that on reflection, Beth's ascent was one of the great landmarks in climbing history.
Looked pretty nails at the time and seem to recall a lot of the difficulties being finger size dependent so understandably probably feels even harder for people with normal sized hands.
> Looked pretty nails at the time and seem to recall a lot of the difficulties being finger size dependent
Traversi did an Enormocast interview while he was working on it, and said he thinks it's not as hand-size-dependent as people imagine; the crack's so thin that much of the time no-one's fingers are going to fit inside it anyway and it's much more about using the edges for weird tenuous side-pulls.
I was waiting for this to appear as a news article on the main page. What is potentially the world's hardest trad pitch getting a second ascent after more than 10 years since the FA seems like something worth reporting on; perhaps UKC has something in the works.
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