Sasha DiGiulian & Kevin Jorgeson | Lost Arrow Spire

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Yeah, rockandice reported it. They topped out the same day Traversi and DiGiulian did the Mushroom.

"Carlo and Sasha said the conditions were bad, but in actual fact, they were quite good,” Phillips tells Rock and Ice. “All the hard pitches—the 8a, 7c's, and 7b+—were dry. You've got to expect with these walls, some pitches are gonna be damp."

While going through that 8a.nu thread again, I found these two comments interesting:

"Robert Jasper, he did the first ascent of the route „Symphonie de Liberté“ , also an 8a, together with his wife Daniela back in 1999. Also, in 2003, another woman, Ines Papert, redpointed the same route in a day! It has 27 pitches which is even longer than the 21 pitches which Sasha did."

"...claiming a first female ascent is also some delicate matter, since many (or even most) of the previous ascents did surely go under the radar. This is just not a route that is reserved to elite climbers, but one where ordinary climbers can (and do) regulary get on (if conditions allow). "

So, definitely not first free female ascent of Eiger's north face and also no way to know for sure if first free female ascent of the route in question (I doubt they did the proper research after switching routes and before reporting FFA).

Then again, I don't remember any of them saying anything about FFA. While not particulary humble, they both seem honest enough in interviews. But their sponsors for sure tried to sell the story big time...

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