Manolo, who's now 51, has previously repeated routes like Bain de sang, 9a, Bimbaluna, 9a+, Thin ice, 8c, all in the same style, and he says this one is undoubtedly more demanding. He concludes your foot work must be "half decent", which must be a classic understatement. Brilliant!
So, the route. Eternit, 9a, at Baule in the Italian Dolomites, which is dead vertical is an extension to a route he did 19 years ago, O ce l?hai? o ne hai bisogno, 8b/+, which he deemed impossible at the time. Apparently he was wrong.
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Photo: Manolo courtesy of La Sportiva
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