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INTERVIEW - Jonathan and Bob Siegrist on the Dunn-Westbay 5.14a

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 UKC News 30 Aug 2016
Jonathan Siegrist: Dunn Westbay, 4 kbUS climber Jonathan Siegrist is renowned for hard sport climbing, with repeats of La Rambla 9a+ in Siurana, La Cadre Nouvelle 9a and the iconic Biographie 9a+ at Ceuse, as well as multiple hard first ascents around the world. However, growing up with a climbing father and living in close proximity to mountains has lead him to sample some larger-scale objectives.

Jonathan recently repeated the free-climb the full, original Dunn-Westbay on the Diamond, Long's Peak, Colorado, a 5.10 A3+ aid route established in 1972 by Jimmy Dunn and Billy Westbay, partnered by none other than his 66 year-old father Bob.



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Great stuff
 AlanLittle 30 Aug 2016
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Great achievement, respect 'n' all. But ...

> The crux 5.14a pitch is 80 metres in length and is situated at an altitude of 4084 metres, likely making the Dunn-Westbay the hardest multipitch rock route above 13,000ft in the world to date.

Didn't Yuji & Co do a 9a near the top of Kinabalu a few years back? Maybe it was a single pitch. And iirc it subsequently fell down anyway.
 jwi 06 Sep 2016
In reply to AlanLittle:

Pogulian Do Koduduo, 9a is a two pitch route (7c+,9a) @ 4000 m, in Kinabalu.
 1poundSOCKS 06 Sep 2016
In reply to AlanLittle:

> 13,000ft

Confused. What's special about 13,000ft?
 thommi 06 Sep 2016
In reply to 1poundSOCKS:

it is nearlees 4000 metres innit... thingz is harder to dooz....

Its bloody remarkable climbing that hard that high for most.
 1poundSOCKS 06 Sep 2016
In reply to thommi:

> it is nearlees 4000 metres innit... thingz is harder to dooz....

Kind of begs the obvious questions...
 1poundSOCKS 06 Sep 2016
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> Its bloody remarkable climbing that hard that high for most.

And remarkable for most at sea level.

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