US 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.
> 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.
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