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Moon climbs sit start to Voyager, Font 8b+

Ben Moon has climbed the sit start to Voyager his Burbage testpiece of last year. Voyager (given Font 8b or V13) recently got two repeats from Tyler Landman and Paul Bennett (see photo)

Ben reports on his blog,

"Well this is the news I have been waiting to blog about for just over a year! I just climbed the sit start to Voyager. It's quite amazing really because I climbed Voyager on the 16th November last year so it's almost a year to the day that I have finally achieved what I set out to do which was always to climb right from the back of the roof. It's been quite a battle I must say and I've lost track of the number of days I have spent on this particular climb. It's been really hard for me and is certainly the hardest bit of climbing I have done and I am pretty sure it's 8b+. After many tries last winter and spring I got very close but couldn't quite link it all together. I felt so unmotivated over the summer and wondered if I would ever get motivated to start the battle again but it's amazing how a few cold days can totally turn your mood around."

You can read more at Ben's blog.


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20 Nov, 2006
No comments!? Unbelieveable, good effort Ben! How anybody can even hang those starting holds is beyond me.
20 Nov, 2006
You are right....40 years old and still at the top of his game. Yes, you'd think that with all these strong and young boulderers about it would have been done sooner. What do they do all day? Mick
20 Nov, 2006
School?
20 Nov, 2006
should that be THE school graeme or just school? ;)
20 Nov, 2006
Not sitting on there arses? (Sorry I think sit starts are pretty bogus but hey, each to their own)
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