The Ticklist #13 - Hard Sport, Highball Bouldering and Horrendous Crack Climbing
In this week's Ticklist, we take a look at some hard sport ascents, Barbara Zangerl's ascent of Greenspit and the usual hard bouldering.
This week's Friday Night Video is a bouldering masterclass from Jimmy Webb. He attempts Lucid Dreaming, a notoriously crimpy Font 8C which is very difficult to find in the right condition. On the heavier side, Webb explains that he usually shies away from climbs of this style and that climbing the problem was a pivotal moment for him. A fun video with some stunning footage of the bouldering paradise of Bishop.
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Return to Latest NewsJimmy Webb is one of the world's top boulderers, with multiple Font 8C+ problems on his CV. He has been at the forefront of pushing into new grade boundaries for several years and made first ascents worldwide.
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In this week's Ticklist, we take a look at some hard sport ascents, Barbara Zangerl's ascent of Greenspit and the usual hard bouldering.
Another relatively quiet week globally. Here's a few highlights.
Mellow have just released footage of Jimmy Webb's Rocklands rampage in 2019. The top American boulderer worked his way through some of Rocklands' hardest testpieces, including Spray of Light (8C), Parzival (8C), The Finnish Line (8C), Monkey Wedding...
American climber Jimmy Webb has claimed the 2nd ascent of Shawn Raboutou's Off the Wagon Sit in Val...
Daniel Woods has made the 2nd ascent of Sleepwalker, a Font 8C+ first climbed with Jimmy Webb in December 2018. The...
Jimmy Webb has made the 3rd ascent of Daniel Woods' The Creature from the Black lagoon, ~8C+, at the Upper Chaos...
While visiting the UK for CWIF, Jimmy Webb popped in to Chimera Climbing, Tunbridge Wells, to try...
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 bushla...
In this week's Friday Night Video, Connor Herson takes on one of the world's hardest crack climbs: Magic Line (8c+), in Yosemite Valley. First established by Ron Kauk in 1996, the climb has seen only five ascents since that time....
In this week's Friday Night video, Didier Berthod returns to complete a soaking wet first ascent of Squamish's longest roof crack boulder, Gold Rush.
In this week's Friday Night Video, Pete Whittaker takes on the challenge of rope soloing the...
Following in the steps of his heroes, Brad Gobright, Matt Wilder and Hayden Kennedy,...
Despite receiving criticism and abuse for the way she looked and engaged with an old-fashioned climbing community...
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Written Font 8C+ when it is 8C? Jimmy didn't propose any upgrade as far as I'm aware and the consensus is 8C so I think a mistake has been made. The Process on the same boulder is 8C+.