Baller

Part 1 in the Aesthetic series from Director Keith Ladzinski of 3 Strings Productions The Pouxe is an off the road blow-by crag in Glenwood Canyon off of I-70, but it does have a few pearls. In this episode Matty Hong takes on the cliffs hardest and prettiest line "The Gutless Wonder", a stunner 5.14b route established by Andy Raether in 2005. Directed and edited by Keith Ladzinski Filmed by Keith Ladzinski, Cameron Mair, Jim Tharp

He just got right on Gutless Wonder, which opens up with a V10 boulder problem and a bunch of athletic campus moves between in-cut finger locks. He dogged his way up the route. Rested for 30 minutes. Then one-hung it. Then finally redpointed it on his third try, which is the footage in the video. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. Though we were joking about how Alex Megos once passed through here and flashed this climb, which is also baller.

From Keith Ladzinski and from the article 'The Return of Climbing Porn' on EveningSends.com

 

Nice little video from Ireland too from John Howard:

A rough clip of a day out bouldering in Wicklow, I shuffled along Michael Duffy's newish (and as yet unnamed) lip traverse in Mall Hill (7C+) and did the first ascent of Space Jam (7C) in Raven's Glen today. (gopro ran out of battery so the Space Jam phone footage is just for beta/posterity)


Neal McQuaid