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Vertigo (32/8b+) Australia's Hardest Trad Route 8-Mar-2020 At 11:41:58 AM Duang Daunk

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Hard trad climbing, now that’s real climbing, so I completely agree with it being a top effort, and it only took 25 months to up the standard since last hardest trad crack, so well done.

I’m not ever going to get up either of these routes, but I wonder how they compare to each other? It’d be great if one of the ascensionists did the other route for clarity about their grades.

Here’s the history -
>Climbing News
>13-Jan-2018 Logan Barber does Aussie new hardest trad crack.
>Australian climber Logan Barber has established the hardest pure crack climb in Australia, Japanese Deep Freeze (31/5.13d), at Mt. Buffalo, Victoria.

>The short, power-endurance line, which has remained an open project since the 1990s, involves a shallow, flaring 0.75 granite crack on overhanging terrain and challenging gear placements.

>After their successful ascents of Shark Hunt, Barber and Vertrees shifted their attention to Japanese Deep Freeze, dialing in the beta on toprope after several days, and agreeing that the line was significantly harder than The Great Shark Hunt.