Gripped – August 2019

BRETTE HARRINGTON,

INES PAPERT and

LUKA LINDIC made the

first ascent of The Sound of

Silence VI M8 WI5 in memory

of Marc-André Leclerc up the

east face of Mount Fay in the

Canadian Rockies.—Gripped

Quebec climber

EMILIE PELLERIN

onsights The Shadow 5.13

in Squamish after an hour of

calf-pumping stem climbing.

ALANNAH YIP

becomes the first Canadian

woman to make finals at a

World Cup. She makes

bouldering finals at the IFSC

Chongqing World Cup and

finished sixth.

ALEX

MEGOS

makes the first

ascent of Fight

Club 5.15b,

Canada’s first

5.15 which was

unrepeated as

of spring 2019.

JOSH

MULLER

makes the first

ascent of Kinder

Surprise 5.14d

at Acephale, one

of Canada’s

hardest routes.

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