Ascents in Les Gorges du Verdon having Beta

Magnifique, resi physique sur petites colos et inversées. 2 essais. 8c+/9a.

Voie exceptionnelle. 50 mètres.

First FA of the season on the Ramirole 🤙. It was an "end of day" project : Bohemian symphony extension. It could be around 8c. I was close to do my warm up project too, falling on the last move... Next one

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The nicest collonette I've ever seen!!!!

what an amazing line!!! Really worth it.

L2

Two days. 5 tries. One of the most amazing tufa lines! 60m battle against pumped forearms

Majeur. Puissant en bon dévers.

First pitch

8a+,8a,8b,8a+,7a

2nd Go. mono-tufa king line. full koala mode.

one day ascent, every pitch on lead

7 pitches up to 8a+, soft; felt like 7c+

#2go Such an incredible long route at one of the best crags in the world!

First 8a+ multi-pitch! One day ascent.

Majeur. L1 colos et L2 trous.

Really nice!!! But hard for the grade! 8a Mussato!

Une de voies le moins raides du secteur...ideale pour mon dos bloque...bon c'est quand même un peu tordu en bas..pas si ideale:- )Mais tres tres beau!

Great, technical, long

FFA.

Right exit

#2go Trop bon, 1er 8a ! Super content de la faire. Très belle traversée sur petites prises. Belles sections !!

Nice! And I was just tall enough.

Amazing 4 pitch route! 8a, 7b, 7c+, 7c+ (last pitch was supposed to be a 6c+ but we missed the easy exit and topped out on a 7c+ grey slab in the dark) nearest I came from falling was while leading the 7b gardening pitch!

First six quickdraws are not that hard (maybe 7b) on juggy tufas but already extremely overhanging (could do this in one piece in my second try). Then, there is a part without tufas and I couldn't do two single moves. From the last bolt to the anchor it's again easier. Extremely powerful, I have to improve my max power for this.

2nd try.

Very nice one...but can't imagine Alain Robert free solo on it!

Great moves to pass the bulge!

Nice route. Starts in the back of a small cave. First, you traverse to your left on underclings in a roof before turning the lip. Apart from one hard move to reach the tufa on your left, the part after the lip is just jugs and a really good climb.

AWESOME

With Kate. Long day. Led one pitch, hung on the crux pitch, aided the 7c+. Amazing positions. Amazing route

Repeat - a classical route.

A beautiful multipitch route taking several hours. We did not do the 7b/b+ pitch.

#2go Magnifique colonnette !! Très belle voie.

Called 'La Hulkotte Clandestine' in our guidebook. A shorter route, but the moves are continuously hard right from the start all the way to the anchors. Felt harder than all the other routes I tried and it's definitely harder than 7b+ in my opinion.

Nice vertical face climbing. Got to the second to last quickdraw where I ran out of power. Going from the last quickdraw to the anchor is quite hard - you have to establish yourself on the slab above the vertical part of the wall.

Very nice route! A bit pumpy, a bit bouldery, nice nix

The grade is due to a hard crimpy boulder at the end of the overhang, too hard for me.

amazing route

Amazing pocketed lower corner, then it backs off unfortunately.

Bauchet, Tufa heaven

The bottom half is amazing, technical corner climbing on good holds in a stunning position. The top half is a dirty jug-haul. Still a classic. Polished!

I didn't think it was possible but this was even better than the last day. Every pitch was just an absolute classic. We skipped the 7a and 6c+ bottom pitches which sounded pretty shitty.

We started from the lower the 6c+ pitch, awesome route

Would be Mega Classic if not for the rubbish access pitch and the aid move off the belay of P2 (the first 6c pitch). Otherwise it is brilliant and varied on nearly immaculate rock, and quite demanding. The gnarly traverse and continuously hard P3 (6c), and the "improbably steep at the grade" P7 (6a), and classy groove-feature P8 (6a+) are the standouts. Onsight P1, P2, P3 (with an initial fall right off the belay when I thought I was off-route). P4, P5, and P7, clean 2nd P6 and P8. In alpine conditions with some snow on the ground.

P2 (7b) only, linked from Cercopitheque for a harder finish and a mega 50m pitch. Earns the grade for an extremely hard brief boulder problem through a bulge, took a single fall mid-crux (and fell a long way due to the amount of rope in the system!), thrn climbed from below the crux to the top. No anchor meant I had to belay off the lookout itself, which turned the whole climb into a circus.

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