More than a year after making the ascent, Andy Lamb has announced the first ascent of Event Horizon (f8C+), at Grand Wall Boulders, in Squamish.
The boulder is a low-start to Room Service (f8A+), which starts from standing on stacked pads, and was first climbed by Sean McColl in 2011. Nalle Hukkataival established the 8B+ Room Service Low (f8B+) in 2018, which begins from a standing start further down the boulder.
Event Horizon starts from an even lower crouching start, and - at V16/8C+ - is the hardest boulder in Squamish. The boulder took Lamb somewhere in the region of fifty-five sessions to climb.
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Having fallen off the finishing jug, Lamb went to check the footage, only to discover that the phone he'd been using to film the attempt hadn't actually been recording. He made sure the phone was recording, pulled on again, and did it the next go - but still couldn't quite believe that it had really happened.
'It was very surreal honestly', he said on a recent podcast, 'I don't think I've had this with anything else, but I wasn't sure if I did it... I had to go back and watch the video. I had just not done it so many times. I texted Ethan (Salvo) the video and was like "dude, I think I did it'.
Salvo made the second ascent of the boulder earlier this month, after three years of effort.
Event Horizon is Lamb's fourth boulder at 8C+, after Creature from the Black Lagoon (f8C+), Insomniac (f8C+), and Sleepwalker (f8C+). You can watch uncut footage of the ascent below.
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