News Connor Herson climbs Empath 9a+ on Trad Gear
18-year-old Connor Herson has made a trad ascent of Empath 5.15a/9a+ at Lake Tahoe in the northern Sierra Nevada, USA. Herson had previously redpointed the line as a sport route. The line is among the hardest trad routes in the world and involves powerful compression moves on undercuts and sidepulls.