The team of Nico Favresse, his brother Olivier, Sean Villanueva, together with photograph and climber Ben Ditto, carried out the first ascent of The Devil’s Brew – 850 m – in Greenland
\nI\u2019ve been looking at that wall for twelve years, but I\u2019ve never found any team good enough\u201d Bob Shepton winner of the 2009 Tilman medal.
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\nOn july 12 we committed to \u201cthe impossible wall\u201d. After 8 days we found ourselves on the summit on July 22. So how is it possible that we passed 11 days in only 8 you might be asking yourself? The answer my friend lies in the burning midnight sun and 30 hour-days or nights or whatever you want to call it.
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\nOur efforts on the wall and on our musical instruments yield probably the most adventurous route we have ever done. It has everything: grassy cracks, spongy mossy cracks, licheny faces, kitty litter offwidths and an inbuilt shower. We got rained on, we got shat on and we got vomited on. We now understand better why the locals call it \u201cSeagull wall\u201d.
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\nEvery pitch of the 850m wall offered incredible beautiful sustained climbing, always challenging, on superb quality granite. We are very happy to have freeclimbed the whole thing (if grabbing grass is accepted as free). We decided to name this new line \u201cThe Devil\u2019s Brew\u201d after a little present we offered Bob when we first met him and which he calls the Devil\u2019s Brew. Also it remarkably resembles the water running from a black hole which we collected on the wall, both in colour and taste.
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\nWe are particularly proud that we left nothing behind: no bolts, no pitons, no cordelette. The only things repetitors may find extra are a few more brown falcons on the wall but we suspect they have already left.
\nWe topped out on the summit with all our gear and portaledges and hiked down to the coast and celebrated our adventure with champagne and freshly caught fish. Later that night we awoke to a raging storm that lasted for a few days so we were very unfortunate not to have experienced that while still on the wall.
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\nSource and photos: http:\/\/www.xpedition.be\/
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