Babsi Zangerl has made the fourth ascent of Beth Rodden's Meltdown (5.14c/8c+) at the Upper Cascade Falls, Yosemite Valley. The rarely repeated line was first climbed by Rodden in 2008 and for a while was not only the hardest single pitch trad climb in the USA and the hardest trad climb established by a woman at the time (and to our knowledge, remains so).
This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...
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