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Panaroma, the super hard Dolomite multipitch route has been repeated by the Pou brothers. The route, first freed by the Alex Huber back in 2007, has pitches up to F8c in difficulty, with spaced protection.

Full story with photos and video:

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=57369

In reply to UKC News: Where are all the red bull haters now? Looks like having that solitary can on the bivuoac got the through the night.

In reply to Morgan Woods:

Why should a climber be judged by the sponsors they have? It's hard for climbers to live from doing what they love, so if a good enough sponsorship turns up they'd be crazy not to take it.
Is not that professional climbers are driving Ferraris and holidaying in Miami...

In reply to UKC News: It is not the 3rd asccent, but the 4th, since Heli Kotter has repeated the route shortly after Hansjörg Auer. He did also climb Bellavista (8b+)!

In reply to UKC News:

Cool Brockencopter at the end there.

In reply to Waldmeister: Yes, you are quite right - I have now edited the story.

Thanks for that.

Jack

In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC:

just an observation, but in the video there seems to be pre placed draws on the traverse pitch. This is contradicting their own description in which they say:

"the 60 m, 8b+ pitch. This is not the best kind of pitch for Iker as he prefers them short and intense, but we were both sure that we could bring it off. 45 minutes later, time proved us right. He completed the pitch in the first attempt of the day, despite the fact that all the rocks on this very long traverse were very wet."

How can it be his first try of the day, if the draws are already in?

I supposed they could have been placed the the camera team?

In reply to twistedsonics:

could some of the other pitches not have been traverses? or part traverses?

on another note, is alex huber the coolest man on earth? jesus perhaps

In reply to twistedsonics: Or they just left them up on the hard pitches having previously attempted them. Nowhere do they claiming that they flashed that pitch.

In reply to twistedsonics: the fact is that QD you refer to could have easily been placed by himself and then retreated to a better hold for a rest, or is that cheating?

In reply to twistedsonics:

They worked the route prior the full free attempt. The footage could have been filmed at any point in the attempts, or even at a later date after the redpoint. The is usual practice for filming this sort of stuff, as you wouldn't expect the cameraman to be hanging there for days on end until they manage the route.