Direkte Südwestkante: not my finest day
A brutally hard 7+. I hung on almost everything and used a sling as an aider at one point.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
A brutally hard 7+. Whether that’s the route or me on that day I can’t cleanly separate — probably both.
I hung on almost everything, and at one point used a sling as an aider. That’s the point where you stop kidding yourself and simply concentrate on getting to the top.
Not my finest day.
Days like that are part of it, and leaving them out here would be dishonest. You don’t climb well every day, and the route knows nothing about it.