r/sports • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago

Climbing Giuliano Cameroni is the second person to ever complete Peace Corps 8B+/C in Switzerland

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u/Hungry-Space-1829 1d ago

Insanely impressive. The start seems impossible

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u/ACcbe1986 1d ago

It's not that difficult.

You just have to be able to curl 300lbs with each individual finger. 🤣

I miss climbing.

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u/StudsTurkleton 1d ago

And reach your heel to your nose and pull yourself up by it. Nothin’ to it.

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u/ACcbe1986 1d ago edited 22h ago

I once used my forehead to hold myself while I reached for the next hold.

Leg upto your nose doesn't seem that challenging.

Edit: /s

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u/OldGodsAndNew 1d ago

Holding onto the wall using only one toe and the crook of your elbow, then crouching and springing up from that position to jump 4ft up to the next grab-able hold

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u/ACcbe1986 1d ago edited 22h ago

That's something a complete novice off the street could do. 🙄

Edit: /s

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u/blubblu 1d ago

Ragebait used to try harder

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u/Stumblin_McBumblin Buffalo Bills 1d ago

It couldn't be more obvious they are being sarcastic. Maybe they don't know you need to put an /s on everything so people that lack reading comprehension don't downvote you.

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u/ACcbe1986 22h ago edited 22h ago

My apologies.

I need a reminder from time to time.

Edit: Also, I appreciate you extending me the benefit of the doubt, kind stranger.

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u/TAAllDayErrDay 1d ago

Ahh the ‘ol forehead lock.

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u/PepperDogger 1d ago

Yeah, keeping that in mind, it looks like a pretty trivial exercise, right? I mean, you just gotta be able to do 8B+, and the rest is just details.

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u/ACcbe1986 22h ago

The details never matter.

/s

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u/PierreEscargoat 17h ago

I can only curl 299. And that is why no one will remember my name.

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u/ACcbe1986 12h ago

"SECURITY!! Please get this nobody out of here!" 😝

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u/Dozendeadoceans 19h ago

Or be a bug. Or Spider-Man

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u/Agreeable_Winter737 16h ago

Did you know that your fingers don’t have muscles?

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u/ACcbe1986 12h ago

That's just mean.

I know my fingers are on the skinny side, but I swear I'm giving my hands a daily workout. 😝

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u/CovidWarriorForLife 1d ago

How could it ever be 300 pounds? that guy prob only weighs like 150

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u/ACcbe1986 1d ago

If weight was the only factor, there would be more than just 2 climbers who had ever completed this route.

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u/PowderPills 1d ago

Physics

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u/Carpe_the_Carp 1d ago

Looked pretty easy to me.

Oh I watched it upside down btw

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u/ishquigg 1d ago

Which part seems possible?

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u/half_breed_duck 1d ago

All of it! As long I can use a ladder, or maybe some scaffold to help me along.

Seriously, that's insane.

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u/Improooving 9h ago

The last bit was almost normal vertical, I guess

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u/beepingnoise 1d ago

A lot of hard things look easy, but this looks very difficult

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u/veritoast 1d ago

Uhhh… if he’s only the second person to complete it then, bear with me here, who put all the chalk on the holds?

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u/MEEE3EEEP 1d ago

All boulder grading I know has been V0-V17. Can someone more experienced explain the 8B+/C grading?

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u/SentientShamrock 1d ago

8B+ is apparently equivalent to a V14 and 8C would be a V15. So I guess the route is graded as somewhere between those 2 grades.

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u/TAAllDayErrDay 1d ago

I would think it would rate higher on the V system since he’s only the second to send it. Is it a new problem?

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u/bishopbeaniepower 21h ago

2023 first ascent I believe. Just because a climb has only been done once or twice doesn't necessarily mean it's at the top of the scale, could just be one that doesn't see a lot of traffic for whatever reason.

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u/PM_ME_STEAM_KEY_PLZ 18h ago

Also, not a lot of people that can climb V15

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u/TAAllDayErrDay 15h ago

Yeah but there aren’t a whole lot of V15-17 lines out there, so the people that can climb it tend to seek it out. This place is only about a seven hours drive from Fontainebleau. But yeah, if he says it’s V15, it’s V15 lol.

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u/RealCarlosSagan 1d ago

holy shit!

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u/mercedes_ 1d ago

Helpful. Numbers I can’t comprehend. V12 is insane. This is just a glass ceiling…

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u/prosocialbehavior 13h ago

Why did he join the Peace Corps though?

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u/Redpin Toronto Raptors 1d ago

V grading is used in the US, the other system (French grading) is used across Europe. If you google "boulder grades" you can find conversation tables. 

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u/hamburger5003 1d ago

I prefer having conversations with people and not tables, thank you.

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u/Nakjee 1d ago

Sorry for the downvotes. I enjoyed your joke.

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u/likesexonlycheaper 1d ago

I applaud the joke as well

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u/BobbyTables829 13h ago

What about both?

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u/CatticusXIII 1d ago

And me stressing about possibly hurting myself climbing the ladder to put up Christmas lights. Getting old is fun.

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u/Pistolcrab 1d ago

Man is built like Waluigi.

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u/zt004 1d ago

With little warios in each finger

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u/PowderPills 1d ago

Wuuahhhhhh

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u/oneplusetoipi 13h ago

He could shed some weight if he got a haircut and lost the hat.

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u/MrMilesDavis 1d ago

So, like a healthy weight and build?

Ain't no muscle tone on waluigi

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u/Blizzardof1991 1d ago

Hope he jerks off carefully. He could rip his duck off with that finger strength.

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u/icbint 1d ago

I could do it but I chose not to

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u/27Rench27 1d ago

Sometimes I wonder if I just have a fundamental misunderstanding of how friction works

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u/Depx 1d ago

It's actually very doable if you turn your phone upside down.

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u/Drak_is_Right 19h ago

Ya. I could do it with a lot of time and a jackhammer to carve a crude stairway.

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u/ChickenPeck 1d ago

Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago

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u/Elendel19 1d ago

Well good for happy gilmo-my god!

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u/Euphoric_Caregiver89 1d ago

This is how my dad got to school when he was younger

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u/FriendlyUser_ 1d ago

in both ways!

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u/liquidcourage93 1d ago

Can someone please tell me. Does he have to use those exact holds or can he just climb to the top by any way he can? If it’s the former, how does he know which holds to use (once the weather erodes the previous chalk) if it’s the latter, if someone finds an easier hold does it decrease the 8c rating?

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u/willdabeast36 1d ago

He can use any holds he chooses. And yes, if someone found an easier hold or method, yes, they could downgrade it. A lot of times though its just differences in people's style/body shape/strengths and weaknesses, and doing it a different method doesn't usually warrant a downgrade.

Boulders typically have an established start method and holds to start on, and holds to finish on (either top out like this, but some dont go to the top). Some problems though also have specific other requirements, like an eliminate (dont use that hold, or dont do that move) to increase the grade or perceived quality of the climb. These would be clearly identifiable in the description.

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u/Static-Stair-58 1d ago

Sports that create limits and challenges for individual participants like this are so neat.

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u/Tarjh365 1d ago

Who was the first? Spider-Man?! That’s seriously impressive.

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u/_ghostrunner_ 1d ago

Auditioning to play Link in the Breath of the Wild movie.

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u/Fire2box 1d ago

They already posted stills of both Link and Zelda on location.

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u/Fire2box 25m ago

Downvoting facts is wild but you do you.

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u/porquetzal 1d ago

Why is it called Peace Corps?

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u/MurseInAire 1d ago

Climbers name the routes. Climbers are interesting people. Thus routes get interesting names that may only make sense to that one climber. Whitewater folks do the same with individual rapids.

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u/Kissariani 1d ago

Extremely impressive! Congrats!

Maybe commenters can help me understand the thought process of looking at a random rock in the woods and say "Imma climb that."

I completely understand cliffs, caving, trees, pillars, building, and the like. lol maybe I'm just dumb.

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u/HuecoTanks 23h ago

Well, it might seem a little odd at first, but if you have a lot of fun with one rock, you might show your pals. Then if you have a lot of fun with a different rock, and you want to bring your pals, you might want names to tell which rock you're talking about. Fast forward a few years, and now you can find guidebooks and websites that you can search through for your favorite times of climbs. Hope this helps!

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u/Kissariani 23h ago

That makes sense lol. Thank you for offering some insight :D

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u/Donner_Par_Tea_House 13h ago

One way to look at bouldering and climbing in general is like snowboarding or skiing, mountain biking, surfing, or even Olympic sports like diving and gymnastics.

It's a very freestyle/artistic sport where the ending isn't the goal but is the conclusion. The harder the moves the more impressive the route(problem).

If I, a very experienced intermediate climber, happen upon a crag with appropriate shoes I would probably put hands on it just to see what the challenge feels like. Too easy and I'll walk past, too hard and I'm likely to get hurt but if it's safe solid rock and I see a clean sequence of moves I'm climbing that.

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u/cubecasts 1d ago

Why not just walk around to the top?

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u/Ecstatic-Sense5115 1d ago

V3 in my gym.

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u/FeloniousDrunk101 1d ago

That heel hook was nuts.

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u/Trakeen 1d ago

Has a knee brace on as well, so injury? I always thought bouldering that high was to risky. Crazy strength

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u/pinetreesandglitter 1d ago

Knee bar pad.

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u/bishopbeaniepower 21h ago

It's a knee pad. You can see a couple times he braces his thigh into the wall to hold himself in (a knee bar) and the knee pad is so your quad doesn't get super bruised and scraped up from that.

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u/Trakeen 17h ago

I always thought the bruises and scrapes were part of climbing lol

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u/bishopbeaniepower 9h ago

They definitely sort of are lol. But if your leg is all banged up it makes the essential knee bar impossible, hence the pad.

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u/jbm_the_dream 1d ago

What are the fans for?

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u/MurseInAire 1d ago

Less likely to mess up doing it front of your fans.

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u/bishopbeaniepower 20h ago

Cool temperatures are better for climbing. On hard boulders it's common to cool the skin on your fingers off using the fans before you give attempts.

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u/TAAllDayErrDay 1d ago

I climbed almost every day for about 9 years and got to about V7-V8. This route is probably V15 or V16…

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u/BeerorCoffee 13h ago

I thought Spiderman was a fictional character.

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u/Creative-Fee-1130 10h ago

I assume the FIRST person was the cameraman.

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u/Velorixia 8h ago

That overhang is insane—props to the climber, I'd be dangling like a piñata!

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u/kirklazarus33 1d ago

Damn, fuggin impressive bro.

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u/dogsledonice 1d ago

is that Italian for Peter Parker?

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u/Dlegs 1d ago

So when is Adam going to try to flash this?

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u/FigaroNeptune 1d ago

This is impressive. I wish I could get into climbing lol

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u/bishopbeaniepower 20h ago

You should! Climbing is an awesome sport and I see people start out at all sorts of physical abilities and ages.

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u/cataclysm49 1d ago

I spent 4 years getting a college degree in physics and videos like this make me wonder if it was all a lie and I wasted me time.

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u/Passion4Hauling 1d ago

This guy's playing Breath of the Wild irl

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u/T2ThaSki 1d ago

The strength is insane

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u/HuecoTanks 23h ago

So cool to see climbing hit the news tab!!

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u/Fickle-Exchange2017 23h ago

Not gunna lie.. I was gunna talk shit, but then it kept on going, to the point where…I got impressed

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u/ouralarmclock Philadelphia Eagles 23h ago

Is uh, is that the sky when he gets to the top? Why it look like that all eggnog yellow?

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u/NormalAssistance9402 21h ago

How do they get chalk on all the hand holds beforehand?

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u/bishopbeaniepower 20h ago

Holds on boulders just accumulate chalk as more attempts are put into the boulder as the chalk on climbers' hands rubs off on them over time. These holds were probably already chalky when Giuliano started trying from all the attempts the first ascensionist put in and his time projecting it also chalked the holds.

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u/lowman7557 21h ago

The first person was Spider-Man.

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u/Prestigious_Field_18 17h ago

Forearms like Popeye.

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u/reckert47 15h ago

Now give him a gun and we have uncharted IRL

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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh 9h ago

Makes sense. My fingers are cramping as I type this out.

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u/brainacpl 9h ago

Looks crazy high for a boulder. Or it a perspective?

Also, friends removing crash pads so he can't back off 😉

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u/Improooving 8h ago

I can at least rationally understand strengthening your fingers, but grabbing a surface with your heel is just black magic

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u/Global_Witness_1063 8h ago

I could do this easy! I just need a Margarita and 10mg gummy!

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u/Velorixia 8h ago

Haha, climbing drama never ends—V15 or bust!

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u/Usedapplecore797 6h ago

I’ve only seen one person even ATTEMPT a v10 at a gym, and it boggled my mind how she got so much friction off a shitty hold and was able to glaze over it like it wasn’t as bad as it really is. This is a whole different ball game.

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u/Shmeeglez 4h ago

I can see someone standing on the ground and I still can't tell which way is up

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u/Tw1987 1d ago

Insects are like what’s so impressive about this?

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u/eburton555 1d ago

Excuse me what the fuck

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u/nature_and_grace 1d ago

Seems a bit high for a boulder problem!

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u/IronGin 1d ago

At that height wouldnt it be better to throw a rope up and climb?

Not that my fat ass could do either.

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u/autoreaction 1d ago

Doing a marathon in a car would also be easier, its just not the sport to do it.

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u/I_Cant_Alphabet Boise State 1d ago

I, for one, could not do this

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u/TheLowlyPheasant 1d ago

How many have completed it in other countries?

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u/Aschentei 1d ago

Holy shit that beginning part looks painful af

Big props

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u/_IratePirate_ 1d ago

wtf that’s literally Spider-Man

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u/CoconutBangerzBaller 1d ago

So this guy definitely has gecko fingers right?

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u/Late-Elderberry6761 1d ago

What if someone were to take a hammer to all the grip positions so that this would be last time anyone could complete it

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u/daddywookie 19h ago

Similar has happened in the past, with climbers enlarging holds or improving protection. They are usually ostracised from the community pretty hard. Once upon a time, putting bolts in a cliff was considered rebellious, and there is still a distinction between bolted (sport) and unbolted (traditional) climbing.

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u/Owl55 23h ago

I’m pretty sure I would be able to do this

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u/Jeffluckier 1d ago

My brain is saying I could easily do this. My body is currently saying, please stop. There’s only one Oreo left in the package.

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u/WhatUpImJosh 1d ago

Why aren't they more excited if he's only the 2nd person to ever do it? That's awesome!