Chris Sharma’s “Witness The Fitness”
Read about this in both the Climbing and Rock & Ice mags. More info taken from Wikepedia:
“Witness The Fitness is a boulder problem near Horshoe Canyon Ranch in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas. Its first ascent was by Chris Sharma in early spring 2005. Sharma said it was harder than Esperanza, an 8B+/V14 in Hueco Tanks. It is a 40 foot line with multiple 360 rotations. Sharma is the only person to have sent the problem to date. The problem is pictured in the climbing movie Dosage 3. Controversy has erupted as the problem is on private land, and the owner has expressed no desire to open it for climbers.”
BTW, Chris Sharma does all these difficult climbs or boulder problems but he doesn’t rate his routes/problems. When other climbers climb those same routes/problems, that’s when they rate them.
2 responses so far ↓
Pete // October 28, 2006 at 8:46 pm |
yeah sharma has been cranking it had recently!
if you havent heard he just recently sent a “potential” 5.15a Deep water solo route in El Pontas, Mallorca. Fantastic arch with a 7ft dyno midway makes this one of the most unbeleivable climbs you will ever see in your life. http://www.bigupproductions.com they have a clip of the route.
Congrats chris on ur send! keep climbing hard
christph // October 30, 2006 at 7:32 pm |
Oh yes, I saw the one that Chris did in Mallorca. Awesome stuff. Have uploaded the clip too under “More Sharma Magic”