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THE LOWDOWN: Iker Pou makes 2nd ascent of Demencia senil, 9a+

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[The LowDown: Iker Pou makes 2nd ascent of Demencia senil, 9a+, 3 kb]Christian Frick brought my attention to the fact that Iker Pou has made the 2nd ascent of Demencia senil, Chris Sharma's nightmare of monos and two finger pockets at the Laboratory, Margalef. The 16m all natural route is more or less a hard 8c+ followed by an 8A+ boulder. Iker says it's one of the...

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Luke 22 Jan 2010
I've never been to Margelef but according to Victor Fernandez Llamps I Trons 8c+ has a common start with Demencia Senil.

Here is a video of Iker Pou on that route.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u5zapdq1w4&feature=player_embedded

Enjoy,

Luke
Anonymous 23 Jan 2010
"Here's a video of Chris making the FA."

uhh..no. They would need several different cameras and operators, and they would be visible in the background of the different shots, if this were footage of the actual FA. Great footage and editing, but not of the FA.
Ha, ha, you're right of course, my mistake.

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