Manuel Brunn has made the first repeat of The Elder Statesman, a crimpy Markus Bock route in the 9a range in Frankenjura, Germany.
Manuel describes the route as atypical for the area as crimping as opposed to gnarly pocket pulling is the name of the game.
He first started trying the route, and...
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