{"id":82886,"date":"2018-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/boulder\/news-boulder-2\/paul-robinson-the-pirate%3fs-code\/"},"modified":"2018-07-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T00:00:00","slug":"paul-robinson-the-pirate%3fs-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/en\/boulder\/news-boulder\/paul-robinson-the-pirate%3fs-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Robinson does the first ascent of The Pirate\u2019s Code, a new and fantastic 8C in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\">A great emotion for Paul sending this project in Cederberg<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Also <strong>Paul Robinson<\/strong> is in <strong>South Africa<\/strong>, but, unlike most of the climbers, he is not in Rocklands but a hundred miles away, in the lesser known area of \u200b\u200b<strong>Three Corners<\/strong>, <strong>Cederberg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here he fulfilled a dream that he had brought in for the past four years, climbing a line that really marked him deeply.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The name of this new creature is <strong>The Pirate&#8217;s Code<\/strong>, for which Paul proposes the 8C.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Only the words of Robinson, published on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/paulrobinson87\/?hl=it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram <\/a>profile, can give a true and a beautiful description of what this line has meant for him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&ldquo;In 2014 I found this boulder tucked away in the shadow of a beautiful cedar tree. The sun was setting and the boulder was glowing. I gazed upon the small holds and pondered if the line was feasible. I put some chalk on my hands and felt the holds. I left that season having not tried the boulder but thinking about it constantly. I revisited the line in 2015. I had other projects that year and didn&rsquo;t get to try it but it still remained in the forefront of my thoughts when I thought of dream first ascents in South Africa. Would it go? If it did, it was sure to be a gem. 2016&#8230; I tried it for the first time. I didn&rsquo;t do many of the moves. It felt really hard. I needed to train harder and come back for this thing. 2017&#8230; the line was all I wanted to do. I did a sort of stand start but left SA without the main prize, the full line. I needed to get stronger. 2018&#8230; on my first day of working the line, it all felt different. The moves felt better. I knew this could be the season. I put in a few days on the line and started to get closer. After a big snow storm, the temps were perfect, the wind was blowing, and I knew it was time. As the sun set and I set my pads out, I felt a sense of peace. I didn&rsquo;t feel nervous anymore like I had in the past. I tried a few of the moves and decided to give it a try from the start. From the moment I pulled onto the wall, I climbed flawlessly. First crux done, second done, third crux, the stab move to the slot&#8230; done. The only thing separating me from the top of the boulder was a ~V8\/7B+ section. Without hesitating, I climbed it and found myself topping out on the finishing jugs. Surreal is an understatement. 2014-2018 this climb, this single boulder that no one else in the world may have ever seen before me, had been finally climbed in a mere 1 minute of time. It&rsquo;s kind of hard to wrap my head around still days later. Climbing is my life. Climbing brings me so much joy and happiness. To all the climbers out there, don&rsquo;t take it for granted and appreciate it all.<\/em> &ldquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great emotion for Paul sending this project in Cederberg &nbsp; Also Paul Robinson is in South Africa, but, unlike most of the climbers, he is not in Rocklands but&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":82888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8066],"tags":[8202,13482,13483],"class_list":["post-82886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-boulder","tag-paul-robinson","tag-the-pirates-code","tag-three-corners"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paul Robinson does the first ascent of The Pirate\u2019s Code, a new and fantastic 8C in South Africa - 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