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In this video Romain Desgranges, currently ranked #5 in the World, travels to Joshua Tree to confront his demons by climbing 10 classic highballs.

After many years on the World Cup circuit he has realised that to reach his end goal, he needs to become stronger mentally. To do this, he puts...

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Great video!

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Great video. Can't believe that Act of Contrition is V0+

Wally

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Some lovely footage but overwrought story line and hammed up puffing and panting. So High as the top of his list of ten highballs? It's V5. And he supposedly fell off Act of Contrition which as Bogwalloper pointed out is V0.

In reply to ericinbristol:

It happens. I once fell off a Severe not long after I'd climbed three grit E6s in three hours, two of which were onsights.

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Lovely shirt, I'm gonna ask Santa for one.

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That's nothing. I once fell off a severe not long after I'd climbed two Northumberland sandstone diffs and a mod, one if which was on a top-rope.

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I'm not interested in highballing or Romain Degranges but thought this was a great vid. Very well put together, great score, and very personal. The fact no grades were given to any of the problems made perfect sense. It was about the personal experience of climbing rather than ticking of mere numbers. Top stuff.