Chris Sharma has managed to make the first ascent of Golpe de Estado in the El Pati-sector of Siurana, Spain; a possible new 9b.
Josh Lowell from Big Up Productions just got in touch with us:
"We just posted the segment of Chris working on Golpe De Estado from Dosage V. It's on our site as a free clip so people can check out what the climbing is like now that he's done it. Would be great if you guys want to link over. We als...
In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com: interesting post climb chat, 'ill either do allof them, one of them, or none of them!'. But great climbing though. i like all the power screams.
hells bells that looks hard. Has anyone else (Andrada, Graham, Julien etc) been trying this line too? Is he at a different level to those boys or just trying different stuff?
I don't know but as the bit he falls off seems to be near the top I'd guess no as the route is a 9a into an 8c+ so the hardest moves are likely to be in the direct start bit. This is total guesswork though!