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Here's run down on what the French have been up to lately:Alizée dufraisse, the machine, has done Abregenief, 8b, and onsighted Le Mari de la baleine 8a+, at St. Léger Gérôme Pouvreau has done two 8c's during the Petzl meeting in Catalonia. It's a bit unclear which, but the first was in the Raco de...

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

Hey Bjorn, a little off topic, but Tamara Shay-Nemirow (who made the front page of the global new section on 8a)is a real person (a male climber from Denver named Tom Camileiri). Cheers Jamie Emerson

That's funny! I actually saw the news and figured there must be something wrong. When I googled the name, nothing but the 8a-stuff came up. That's such an easy check to do...