In reply to beastofackworth:
> (In reply to Quarryboy)Plenty of people knew about bernebe fernandez,he already had a good cv of hard routes behind him.
Google his name not much happens, infact if you Google my local climbing instructors name just as much content occurs about his achievements.
Run a search on Chris Sharma you will find page after page of results.
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> i think your initial comments just show that these days people just dont understand how hard these routes really are because you hear about them on a regular basis but as a percentage i would say there are less than 1% of climbers worldwide who can climb french 8a let alone french 9a!!
I would agree with you there I can barely comprehend f7c let alone f9a
Steve Maclue said he couldn't imagine how hard Hubble would be until he had Onsighted f8a+