This Week in Climbing #60 (April 9, 2017)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing!

AFRICA

South Africa
- Status of Bouldering EMP Table Mountain National Park at Climb ZA

AMERICAS

Canada
- New Squamish Route at Murrin is 5.13b Sport at Gripped
- Big Nova Scotia Ice Siren’s Song Gets Second Ascent at Gripped
USA
- Dan Beland Sends Solid Gold 5.14c in Utah at Gripped

ASIA

Japan
- Nayuta, ~8C+, first ascent by Dai Koyamada at UK Climbing
Nepal
- Ueli Steck and the great Everest – Lhotse traverse / Pioneering mountaineering at Planet Mountain

EUROPE

France
- Two new Font 8Cs for Mike Adams at UK Climbing
- Petit Dru, Les Droites & Grandes Jorasses, class mountaineering in the Mont Blanc massif at Planet Mountain
Italy
Spain
- Joe Blau, 8c+, by Anna Liina Laitinen at UK Climbing
Switzerland
- New Base Line, ~8B+, and Steppenwolf, ~8B, by Anna Stoehr at UK Climbing
- Peter Habeler, 74, climbs Eiger North Face again with David Lama at Planet Mountain
- Jacopo Larcher & Babsi Zangerl climbs Gondo Crack, 8c (5.14b R) trad at UK Climbing
- Alexander Rohr Makes Third Ascent of Chromosome Y (9a/5.14d) at Rock and Ice

West Face of Sentinel | The Legacy Project | Kevin Jorgeson & Ben Rueck | adidas TERREX [12:41] – Two hardmen attempt to free the the West Face of Sentinel in Yosemite.
WIDE BOYZ: Spradventure | Hanibal.cz [25:43] – Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker head to the Czech Republic to test their mettle on the area’s iconic sandstone cracks and towers.

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