{"id":56800,"date":"2014-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/falesia\/news-falesia-2\/yuji-hirayama-the-big-issue\/"},"modified":"2014-09-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T00:00:00","slug":"yuji-hirayama-the-big-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/en\/boulder\/news-boulder\/yuji-hirayama-the-big-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuji Hirayama, the tiger&#8217;s paw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuji Hirayama, legend of free climbing and international competitions, doesn\u2019t lose his crystal class and 45 years old wants again to compete whit increasing difficult challenges. In Pembroke, Wales, he climbed The Big Issue (E9 6c\/5.13+R), a long worked route in top rope.&#013;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n&quot;Clean ascent&quot; reports on his facebook page. &quot;Placing all the gear on lead.&quot;&#013;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\nWinner of two World Cup and two Rock Master, in addition to several international masters, in 2003 climbed a 9a+ route, Flat Mountain, Japan, end in 2004 the first 8c on-sight of the history, White Zombie in Baltzola, Spain. But it\u2019s on the big wall that Juji did something incredible in this years, in particular in Yosemite, where whit Hans Florine climbed the Nose in 2 hourse, 37 minutes and 5 seconds (2008) or whit his crazy onsight attempt on Salath\u00e8, perhaps one of the most incredible adventure on the rock that have ever been made, interrupted only by three falls.&#013;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\nYuji started to climb using trad techniques given by Japanese School. Many experiences in this style and a mastery of the high difficulty that has few equals. His incredible life is told in the book Yuji The Climber (Ed. Versante Sud).&#013;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\nsource\u00a0rock&amp;ice&#013;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#013;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuji Hirayama, legend of free climbing and international competitions, doesn\u2019t lose his crystal class and 45 years old wants again to compete whit increasing difficult challenges. 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