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Philippe Ribiére reports, Natalija Gros has made, what I think must be, the first female flash of an 8A, with her ascent of Confessions of a crap artist at Chironico. A Slovenian team has spent a few days in the area training and having fun on the boulders it seems. More information, in Slovenian,...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=54505

Some of these replies were posted on Björn's old blog website, and so won't be from registered UKC users

good effort! pretty tall problem!
its just more 7C than 8A.

but why admit this instead just saying 'soft'?.... better for the headlines i guess...

The lower picture is of Maja Vidmar

The lower picture is of KATJA Vidmar

Oh... yes it it! Sorry, I just assumed... and didn't really look. Sorry about that!
About the grade, I'd say grades are extremely difficult to begin with, and if you flash something really hard... well, it's most likely not going to feel hard for the grade, is it?