Quick Sends – 2/20/09

by Tom Markiewicz on February 20, 2009

More wrap-ups of the ABS Nationals from ClimbingNarc, Paul Robinson, Sean McColl, Jon Glassberg, Pimpin and Crimpin, Momentum Video, Dead Point Magazine, and Climbing Magazine.

Peter Beal made the FA of There Will Be Blood SDS (V12) at Flagstaff Mountain, Colorado.

Ethan Pringle re-injures his shoulder during the ABS Nationals comp.

Markus Bock sent 24 hour Party People (8c+) in Margalef, a route put up by David Graham.

Niccolò Ceria (age 15) has done four 8a’s in two days in Varazze and Chironico including Dreamtime (8a+).

James Pearson repeats the gritstone testpiece Gerty Berwick at Ilkley Quarry, England.

Ty Landman sends Seb Frigault’s L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’Autre, 8B, at Franchard Isatis, Fontainebleau.

Dave Graham sent tons of V13s.

First free ascent of the east face of the central tower of Torres del Paine via “the South African Route” (5.12c)

French climbers Philippe Batoux and Lionel Daudet completed a new 12-pitch mixed rock and ice route at Freyssinière.

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