5.14 Category

Chris Sharma on ‘Gancho Perfecto’ a 9a located at Margalef, Costa Daurada Spain. The video quality and music are not great but it is worth a watch.

Brian Kim climbing ‘China Beach’ 5.14b on the Waimea Wall in Rumney NH.

Chris Sharma working Dreamcatcher 5.14d in Squamish, BC. Such a beautiful line, I never get sick of watching this.

36 Hours with Joe Kinder. From bouldering in his backyard to completion of the test piece Golden Direct 5.14c/d and off to Red Rock West. You can read more about Joe’s ascent of Golden Direct at climbing.com

Axel Ballay and Michael Fuselier putting up some new limestone routes in Yangshuo, China. First ascent of “American Gangster” 5.14, lots of one and two finger pockets.

This is an old one from 2004 but still sick to watch. Yuji Hirayama’s on sight try White Zombie 5.14b. Yuji Hirayama has been busy bouldering you can read more about it at climbing.

Premutation 5.14a

In: 5.14, Grade, Rock Climbing, Routes

Premutation was the first route rated 5.14 in the province of Quebec. In this long video, you see 3 different climbers trying the route and then Canardo shows up and send, making it look easy. [source]

Chris Sharma climbing ‘Three Degrees of Separation’ Ceuse, France. Taken from King Lines. I love the color in the rock at Ceuse.

Scottish climber Dave MacLeod climbing Darwin Dixit 5.14b at at Margalef, Spain. According to Climbing Magazine Dave has free-soloed this project after just three ascents. Read the full article at climbing. I will post the free-solo ascent if Dave posts it to youtube this week.

Fifteen year old Czech Adam Ondra has taken a bit of time off from school to show the world what he can do, climbing two 15a routes in the first week. This is Adam Redpointing “Fuck the System” at Santa Linya on just his third try. Read more about Adam Ondra’s recent exploits at climbingmag.com

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