This was the second route of the so-called Alpine Trilogy climbed by Benes, who did Beat Kammerlander's six-pitch Silbergeier (5.14a) in Switzerland in 2006. Only two climbers, Stefan Glowacz and the late Harald Berger, have climbed all three routes in the trilogy, which also includes Glowacz's route Des Kaisers neue Kleider (F8b+, 9 pitches) in Austria.
Read the full report by Dougald MacDonald (with action photo) on Climbing.com
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