Shauna Coxsey has made the second ascent of Lupin, 8B, on Stanton Moor in the Peak District just one month after Jim Pope put up the problem. There's only a single hold on the entire problem, and one extremely hard move, so it's minimalist in nature; however, in the words of its first ascentionist "it's a good challenge, just for difficulty's sake".
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