Routes as boulder in Ticino

Sit start with matched hands.

Start as for '18' then traverse right to finish up '15'.

Sit start then traverse right to finish up 'Icaro's Step'.

Sit start.

World's first 8C! In 2002, Dave Graham repeated it by finding a different solution. He used a heel-hook to make the brutal start sequence easier, and downgraded the problem to easy 8B+. Most of the following repeaters, including Adam Ondra, Chris Sharma, and Daniel Woods adopted Graham's solution and agreed with him about the grade.

Repetitions

• 2001 Bernd Zangerl (8C)
• 2002 Dave Graham, Chris Sharma
• 2003 Cristian Core
• 2004 Malcolm Smith (V14)
• 2005 Koyamada Dai (8B+/V14), Nalle Hukkataival
• 2007 Killian Fischhuber
• 2009 Adam Ondra (8B+)
• 2013 Jan Hojer (8C/V15)
• 2018 Jimmy Webb , Jakob Schubert
• 2020 Kim Marschner, Alex Megos, Yannick Flohe

Links

• German Article about the problem

Sit start.

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Sit start. Up the arete.

Classic. Difficult start.

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Considered the benchmark for 8c (V15). First confirmed 8C in history, by Dave Graham. Five years earlier, Fred Nicole had proposed 8C for Dreamtime, on the other side of the same boulder, but most repeaters downgraded it to 8b+

Sit start.

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Start to the right usng the stone under the roof.

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Finish on the big hold.

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Standing 8a

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Sit start.

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Sit start. One of the first 8a's in Cresciano.

Easy slab.

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Sit start then up the arete. Standing start is 4+.

Sit start then head right.

Start as for 'Icaro's Step' the head left.

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