Author: Eugeny Krivosheitsev, Odessa

Crimean chronicle of May sending eight-graded lines!

 

Nikita

Serik Kazbekov - Skif (Scythian) (with no pre-clipped carabines), 8b+/8c

Ekaterina Yazmurd - Breeze, 8a +

Maxim Petrenko - Lastochka (Swallow), 8a +, Tsunami, 8a, Flatter, 8a + (bouldering variant)

Kostya Savelyev - Eskadron 8a, Flatter, 8a, Lastochka (Swallow), 8a +, Tsunami, 8a

Sergey Shaferov - Lastochka 8a +, Tsunami 8a, Tri Klyucha (Three Keys), 8c (connection-Flatter (bouldering) + Chertopolokh (Thistle) (bouldering)). Sergey confirmed the 8ñ -category (he has already sent some 8 c-graded lines in Italy).

Eugeny Krivosheitsev, Arco

Mike Shalagin - Breeze, 8a +, Fantastic, 8â.
The most time of Crimean vocation he tried to send Matador 8ñ +. He managed to separately climb both cruxes of "Matador" - one of the most complex Crimean routes - and only a little site left him to climb but he fell in his best attempt when only three meters was up to finish!

As for me in the late April I sent Renis Vibes, 8c in Arko, Massone, Italy, and in early May in Crimea I repeated sending of two connection routes: Tri Klucha (Three Keys), 8c and the Parallelny Chertopolokh (Parallel Thistle) 8c + (the category 8c/8c + Serik Kazbekov confirmed after sending this line last autumn) and sent Skif (Scythian), 8b +/8c .

Serik promised to finish the route in Uruch-Kaya in the near future - Slyozy Krokodila (Crocodile tears) (the project of 8c/8c +) and, probably, all rock-climbers will muster all strength and dry up a bog under the route set by Alexey Chertov - Gullih, 8â +/8c, Red Stone, and it would be possible to send this route!

Parallelny mir	Na konya, 8a	Tri Klyucha, 8c
Skif , 8c	Skif , 8c