UKC

Last month, Magnus Midtboe repeated Dani Andrada's Ali-Hulk sit start extension, and joined the select group of climbers who've climbed 9b.
Now, he has joined an even more exclusive group of climbers who've climbed both 9b route and 8C boulder. In fact, come to think of it, I believe it's not even...

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In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

Unsure why he has graded it 8C when he says himself he's never climbed an established 8B+. Either way, good cranking, can't wait to hear what he does next. Will be interesting to see if the grade sticks after a few repeats.

In reply to Steve13: presumable because it's an awful lot harder than the 8B's he's done.

Interesting to see if the same people can do the very short and very hard 8C boulder problems (like the Paul Robinson one), AND also do the long 8C's, like this one. Seems to be two very different disciplines