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Laura Rogora has made the first female onsight of an 8c+ route, with her ascent of Ultimate Sacrifice (8c+) at Gorges du Loup in Southeastern France.

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That is phenomenal!

Having stood beneath those routes a few times, onsighting Ultimate Sacrifice and the other routes is awesome. Not only are they so so steep, but also really technical and complex climbing.

Even the warm ups there are desperate.

That’s brilliant. 

As is the trip route list and last day route list.

Superb! What a talent.

You have most of the names wrong:

Kinematix

Hot Chili-X (one l only)

7pm JP chaud

Trip Tik Tonik

Am I reading her last day correctly? She onsighted an 8c, and also did two 8c+ and one 8c+/9a?

Holy crap.

This is an incredible achievement! Given the grade is so far below the highest redpoint grade it is easy to (wrongly) assume that this is not a world class achievement!

I was a little surprised to learn that most of the world's 9b+/9b climbers have not onsighted 8c+ (including Jakob Schubert and Stefano Ghisolfi). Out of the handful that have only 2 have onsighted more than 1 and those two also have the only onsights of 9a (Ondra and Megos). 

Agree completely.  Also worth being aware of how massive a performance outlier Ondra is when it comes to hard sport onsighting which further skews the figures . Excluding Ondra, Rogora's 8c+ onsight is the 9th 8c+ or harder os achieved since it was first done in 2007.  Ondra has done it 25 times!!