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Watch 11-year-old Illya Bakhmet-Smolenskyi’s Sick 5.14 Send

Meet 11-year-old Illya Bakhmet-Smolenskyi from Kharkiv, Ukraine, and watch him send the vertical test-piece Hipnofotofilia 5.14a at Birów Mountain in Poland. Shortly after Hipnofotofilia, he sent his first 5.14b called Pijane Trójkąty on Big Cime. Watch for the gnarly finger-pocket match.

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