8C Onsight
The French web site Kairn.com is reporting that, on October 5, Yuji Hirayama onsighted the route Zombi, 8c at Balzola in Spain.
Yuji - "I had to wait three days to get the right conditions before I could finally achieve my objective for the year and I am now very happy to have established a new record for onsight climbing".
He has now set his sights on the even harder challenge of onsighting a route of 8c+ or even 9a!Yestarday 5th October, I did White Zombi, 8c, onsight in Baltzola! It was very hard to wait for good conditions. I waited three days. Finally I did my biggest goal in this year and I am very happy to make new record of onsighting. I climb one more day in Spain and tommorrow I will move to France. I will try more like 9a's and other onsights. Anyway I am very happy and I will keep trying more challanges to come."
White Zombie is an established 8c with several repeats by strong climbers who know what they're talking about. Back in 1999 Yuji stunned the world with his onsight of Mortal Kombat at Castillion (8c at the time, downgraded to 8b+).Earlier this year, with beta, Kilian Fischhuber of Austria flashed a short, possibly 5.14b route that had been upgraded after a hold broke.
From various on line sources.
Yuji - "I had to wait three days to get the right conditions before I could finally achieve my objective for the year and I am now very happy to have established a new record for onsight climbing".
He has now set his sights on the even harder challenge of onsighting a route of 8c+ or even 9a!Yestarday 5th October, I did White Zombi, 8c, onsight in Baltzola! It was very hard to wait for good conditions. I waited three days. Finally I did my biggest goal in this year and I am very happy to make new record of onsighting. I climb one more day in Spain and tommorrow I will move to France. I will try more like 9a's and other onsights. Anyway I am very happy and I will keep trying more challanges to come."
White Zombie is an established 8c with several repeats by strong climbers who know what they're talking about. Back in 1999 Yuji stunned the world with his onsight of Mortal Kombat at Castillion (8c at the time, downgraded to 8b+).Earlier this year, with beta, Kilian Fischhuber of Austria flashed a short, possibly 5.14b route that had been upgraded after a hold broke.
From various on line sources.