Glee tiem nao

[rydra_wong]

The Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.

It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had a good time; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big.

Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.

To enhance the glee this week: Dave MacLeod makes the ultimate sacrifice for a climbing project.

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OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[rydra_wong]

Today I have glee because I just found out that the V13 barrier in women's bouldering has officially fallen -- Angie Payne's become the first American woman (and possibly the first woman worldwide) to climb a confirmed V13.

Video!

Re: OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[tevere]

Holy fuck, what's she holding on to? There's nothing there!

Her intensity is just... man. She took two days of attempts to get that done? I think most people would've given up and gone home.

Re: OMG HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[rydra_wong]

She rocks so hard. And yeah, I love seeing her so focused and aggressive about getting it done.

Though it's actually not unusual to spend several days or more on an ultra-hard project -- I think Dave MacLeod probably holds the obsessiveness record with something in the region of a hundred days, albeit spread over several years.

(I've been having a little MacLeod fest in the last few days. I like the fact that one of the UK's top climbers is such an unassuming dork.)