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The route, Bouin's thirteenth at 9b, is now the hardest in China.

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Are the local climbers who found the area, contributed to the area's development, etc. not named because they don't wish to be known, or? As I found it amusing how the foreign climbers were named but the locals were not!

Congrats to Bouin and thanks to ukc for reporting on it.

The contributions of the local climbers should definitely be celebrated. With news pieces, it's always a balancing act between depth of information and speed of publication. In this case we didn't have the information about those who bolted the route and developed the area available to us, and we decided it would be better for us to publish the information we had access to as quickly as we could, rather than delaying publication of the piece whilst we sought out additional detail.

Hopefully that makes sense, ideally we'd have all the facts as soon as the news dropped, but unfortunately that's not always the case!