-
graded 9a (5.14d)
sport route. Rock & Ice
noted that by 2011, he was "
onsighting 5.14c's by the handful", and by 2013, had "more or less
repeated every...
- In rock-climbing, a
first free
ascent (FFA) is the
first redpoint,
onsight or
flash of a single-pitch, multi-pitch (or big wall), or
boulder climbing...
- top roping.
Climbers will try to
redpoint a
route after having failed to
onsight the route,
which means to free-climb a
route on the
first attempt with...
-
completes a
route on
their first attempt and
without falling, it is
called an
onsight if they had no beta, or a
flash if they had beta (a
completion after several...
-
considering the risk and the
danger [in traditional]". He went from
onsighting E6 to
onsighting 7b (5.12b);
within one year was
doing 8b (5.13d)
redpoints in...
- progression).
Incorrectly ****uming that "free climbing"
always means onsighting or flashing, i.e. that you must
always climb the
route first try. Free...
- and
competition climbing. In 2013, he
became the first-ever
climber to
onsight a 9a (5.14d)
graded route. He has made the
first free
ascent (FFA) of some...
- the
original on June 16, 2019.
Retrieved 21
April 2013. "Magnus Midtbø
onsights 8c+ at
Rodellar in Spain". Planetmountain. 18
April 2013.
Archived from...
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Steck leads, over 4 days,
Golden Gate on El Capitan, USA, at 5.13a (7c+),
onsighting all 3
pitches of 5.13, all 5
pitches of 5.12, and 9 of the 10 pitches...
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probably the first-ever free solo at 7b (5.12b). 1961 : John Gill free soloed—
onsight—the
first ascent of Thimble, the first-ever redpoint, and thus the first-ever...
