Fri Night Vid Michaela Kiersch on The Golden Ticket 5.14c / 8c+
In this week's Friday Night Video, we jump back to November 2016 when Michaela Kiersch became the first woman to climb The Golden Ticket, a testpiece 5.14c/8c+ in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Michaela's success revolved around stickin...
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Anak Verhoeven has redpointed 9a+ and onsighted 8c
Either UKC have already updated the article or I think you misunderstood the claim they were making. The article currently says...
Note the capital letter in that second grade. It's a Font bouldering grade.
They could perhaps have made it slightly clearer, given that the article prominently refers to a recent 8b+ sport onsight, but it doesn't seem incorrect.
Cool stuff.
Was it ever resolved whether Open your mind direct was 9a+ when Ashima did it? I remember it was widely reported at 9a+, but then there was some noise that actually it was 9a (not that I could tell the difference!). Just thinking that she's also climbed >= 8B+ boulder.
Ashima has climbed 8c boulder Horizon in Mount Hiei when she was 15 and done both Open Your Mind Direct 9a/9a+ was the grade when she did it and Ciudad de Dios 9a/9a+ in 2014/15 when she was 14.