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ph Michael Schoefer
TONI LAMPRECHT FA IN VERDON
Le Vieux et la mer, with Uli Strunz and Benno Wagner
September 26, 2009
Between August and September 2009, Toni Lamprecht, Uli Strunz and Benno Wagner spent 4 weeks in the Gorge du Verdon with the target to establish a first ascent on one of the amazing limestone-walls.
The result is Le Vieux et la mer (6b, 7a+, 8ab, 8a, 6a, 7a, 7c+, 7a)
“When you climb a route in the sector Ula in the Gorge du Verdon there's no way not to look at the beautiful, blank looking piller to the right. Soon you get involved in finding a climbable line in the sea of grey rock.” - Toni reported - " I rappelled several times into the overhanging maze of unclimbable looking stone, until I finally found the only freeclimable line
A real wonder ! Exactly a year after seeing the crucial way, we started to boulder in the hard pitches to find the solution.
Few weeks later we redpointed the last missing pitch of our new route "Le Vieux et le mer".
source: climbing.de
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