10 Nov Wenden: Zahir+ 8c

 
Zahir is a very difficult route in Wendenstöck in Switzerland, established between 1996 and 2004 by Swiss climbers Gunter Habersatter and Iwan Wolf and by themselfes freed.
 
In October 2009, German Jörg Andreas and Felix Neumärker carried out the first repeat of the route and they extended the third (crux)  pitch and upgrading it to 8c.
The name of the extended route is Zahir+.
 
Jorg Andreas writes on climbing.de “ all started once more giving  a glance to my old copy of the Von Kanel book Schweiz extrem, where we noticed an “uncertain” line: here the grade of every pitch was followed by a question mark. We saw also the grade 8b+, quite uncommon for Wendenstöcke and frightening for us”
The pair went to look to this route, located ten meters right of Jednicka, and tried to compare the line of the book to the rock…
 
Then on 2006 the Swiss  Gunter Habersatter and  Iwan Wolf freed the route and at this point Jörg   and Felix couldn’t wait more..maybe this is true that Zahir is a person or an object that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it !
 
Jörg Andreas, 32, is a strong climber from Dresden – Germany; he has a brilliant past in sport climbing and competitions. His first alpine route was in 2000 “Weg durch den fish” in Marmolada that he did onsight.
 
He redpointed Silbergeier 8b+ in Raetikon, End of Silence 8c at Feuerhorn (Berchtesgadener Alpen) and has done in alpine style Eternal Flame at Trango Towers.
 
source: climbing.de  kletterhallechur 
 
 
 
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