Joshua Tree - The Cutting Edge
This week's Friday Night Video takes us to Joshua Tree as Jeremy Schoenborn and Robbie Phillips attempt one of the hardest routes in the park: The Cutting Edge. The route was first climbed in 1989 by Scott Cosgrove and was an iconic front cover of Climbing Magazine.
The route is graded 5.13d (8b) and has only had around 4 ascents since '89. Robbie nabbed the 4th ascent and told us:
'I found good beta which allowed me to make the crux move undeniably easier, hence why I did it so quick, otherwise, you have to do a ridiculously hard move, which understandably I wasn't psyched on haha It's probably an astronomically HUGE sandbag if you do it their way, but thank god for good heel hooking and thumb sprags, I managed to tech my way through it. '