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First outdoor 8b for 15-year old Buster Martin

© Peter Wuensche
Fifteen-year old Buster Martin has ticked his first outdoor 8b, SatanX at Déversé in the Gorge du Loup, France.

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Buster on SatanX (8b)
© Peter Wuensche, Apr 2012

Deverse Satanique (8a+)
Deverse Satanique (8a+)
© Peter Wuensche, Apr 2012
It came a couple of days after his first 8a+, Déversé Satanique at the same crag. Buster, a GB team member, had gone to the Alpes Maritimes for his first serious outdoor sport trip since redpointing his first 8as last spring.


Buster Martin is sponsored by La Sportiva, Petzl, Beal


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30 Apr, 2012
Nice one Buster!
30 Apr, 2012
great effort!!!
30 Apr, 2012
Allez!
30 Apr, 2012
Beast, good effort!
30 Apr, 2012
and then went and won the Leading Ladder! Good work crusher!
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