In this week's Friday Night Video, Seb Bouin gets a technical lesson when he visits Cimaï near the south coast of France. Cimaï features a number of routes that are important to French climbing history, specifically Samizdat (8a), which was climbed by Antoine le Menestrel in 1987 and considered to be the world's first onsight of an 8a. Then there was Lynn Hill's redpoint of Masse Critique, the first time a woman had climbed an 8b+.
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Fri Night Vid Mother Earth - 8b Trad in Australia
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...