{"id":110548,"date":"2022-02-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/falesia\/news-falesia-2\/siegrist-first-ascent-da-9a-plus\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T00:00:00","slug":"siegrist-first-ascent-da-9a-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/en\/boulder\/news-boulder\/siegrist-first-ascent-da-9a-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Siegrist: 9a+ first ascent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><\/strong>Jonathan Siegrist has made the first ascent of Close encounter, 9a+.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Back in America after a long European tour to discover many extreme routes of this continent, <strong>Jonathan Siegrist<\/strong> immediately set to work on a project of his. The project lasted more than ten days, but the result is amazing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In fact, at<strong> La Madres<\/strong> Jonathan freed <strong>Close encounter<\/strong>, a very special and difficult pitch to climb. The proposed grade is <strong>9a+<\/strong>, but the style seems to be really difficult! The route is full of underclings and compression movements, with a kneebar that is really difficult to interpret. Immediately after this main proj, Siegrist also granted himself the FA of <strong>Forbidden Planet<\/strong>, a pitch he was trying with Dru <strong>Mack<\/strong> and which should be around <strong>8c<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In total Siegrist has climbed almost twenty pitches between 9a+ and 9b, including some Italian masterpieces such as Lapsus and Goldrake!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">From Jonathan Siegrist&rsquo; IG page<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Alessandro Palma<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Siegrist has made the first ascent of Close encounter, 9a+. 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