In this week's Friday Night Video, we follow Shauna Coxsey as she attempts to make the 3rd ascent of Mito Sit (8B+/V14) in Sintra, Portugal.
The boulder was first climbed in March 2022 by Jun Shibanuma, and adds five moves to the 7C crouching start, almost all of which involve pulling hard on small, and razor sharp, crimps. Will Bosi made the second ascent of the boulder during a short trip to Sintra in the summer of 2024.
This post has been read 2,514 times
Return to Latest News
Overall 1st place in the 2016 and 2017 IFSC Bouldering World Cup. Appointed MBE in 2016. Britain's first Sport Climbing athlete in Tokyo 2020.
Athlete:
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 n...
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....
Please consider becoming a registered user. This is a great help to UKC and gives you access to all these great features:
Already registered? Login
We keep your data private
Comments