Tyler Landman has dispatched two hard and famous problems in one session:
"One large boulder sits in the woods, holding many hard test-pieces established by Fred Nicole in the 90s. I was especially interested in two of them; La Danse des Balrogs - the worlds first 8B, put up in 1992, and Radja - the worlds first 8B+, created in '96. These historical rights of passage had always appealed to me and I finally had a chance to try them..."
La Danse des Balrogs (Font 8b):
"I proceeded to spend a couple minutes sorting the end moves, and then satched it up a couple goes later. I was certainly not expecting the problem to go that quickly, but then again the boulder's powerful and burly nature does play to my strengths."
Radja (Font 8B+):
"I figured out the moves and after twenty minutes or so felt it was time to start from the bottom...."
Writes Tyler Landman. More details on the Moon Blog
This post has been read 27,150 times
Return to Latest News
Tyler is one of the UK's most influential boulderers. He burst onto the scene at 15 years old with an ascent of Jerry Moffatt's The Ace, amongst several other hard repeats.
He went onto...
Athlete:
Comments