{"id":95392,"date":"2019-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/boulder\/news-boulder-2\/keenan-takahashi-libera-un-8b-c-in-giappone\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T00:00:00","slug":"keenan-takahashi-libera-un-8b-c-in-giappone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.up-climbing.com\/en\/boulder\/news-boulder\/keenan-takahashi-libera-un-8b-c-in-giappone\/","title":{"rendered":"Keenan Takahashi does a FA of an 8B\/C in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\">The american goes on climbing strongly in the Far East!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Since a few days now, <strong>Keenan Takahashi<\/strong> is in <strong>Japan<\/strong> where he is gaining lots of nice climbs in the area of<strong> \u200b\u200bMt. Mizugaki<\/strong>, recently the scene of the <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/it\/boulder\/news\/first-ascent-da-8c--per-ryuichi-murai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great first ascent of <strong>United<\/strong> 8C+ by <strong>Ryuichi Murai<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Here again, Takahashi did the <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/it\/boulder\/news\/keenan-takahashi-da-8c-in-giappone-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first ascent of the 8C high ball of<\/a> <strong>Asagimadara<\/strong> and now another high-level first ascent, <strong>Hoto<\/strong> 8B \/ C, climbed on November 13th. In addition, Keenan also sent yesterday <strong>Takaki Mikura SD<\/strong>, 8B+ to find then a direct sit start called <strong>Fujin,<\/strong> which he still evaluates 8B+.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5GQpeaDNWj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From his instagram page <\/a>the comments about Hoto:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>&ldquo;Mega psyched, one of my all time favorite boulders!! Named after a local specialty, for sure the hardest FA I&rsquo;ve ever done! Heel crux felt nails and the link was more limit than anything else I&rsquo;ve done this year.<\/em><br \/><em> Massive thank you to Toshi for showing me, to Nick and Koha for the support, and Sachi for the original vision. <\/em><br \/><em> From Mizugaki parking 2, head right and stay on the left side of the steam; you&rsquo;ll see it facing upstream after about 10 mins.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5GQpeaDNWj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The american goes on climbing strongly in the Far East! &nbsp; Since a few days now, Keenan Takahashi is in Japan where he is gaining lots of nice climbs in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":95394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8066],"tags":[16087,10903,8908],"class_list":["post-95392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-boulder","tag-hoto","tag-keenan-takahashi","tag-monte-mizugaki"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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