Amity Warme Climbs Spicy 5.12 Trad in USA
Watch a short film featuring Warme climbing some of the stout gear climb
Amity Warme, one of Amcerica’s leading trad climbers, visits Oak Creek Canyon in Arizona and gets on the test-piece trad line A Wonderful Life 5.12. The route was first climbed in 2003 by Dan Foster and JJ Schlick.
Mantas Motekaitis was on hand to capture Warme’s ascent and has released it on the Fusis Films YouTube page, watch below. About the film, Motekaitis said, “Amity Warme showing off thin ball nut placements, techy stemming and powerful bouldery sequences.”
Warme has an impressive list of repeats and first ascents. In Yosemite, she’s climbed El Niño with via the Pineapple Express 5.13c 25 pitches, Father Time 5.13b 20 pitches, Golden Gate 5.13a 36 pitches ground-up, Freerider 5.13a 31 pitches (twice), NIAD at 11:45, The Niels Tietze Memorial Route AKA The Nexus 5.13a/b 9 pitches, The Final Frontier 5.13a/b 9 pitches, The Dream Team 5.13a 10 pitches, Scarface Free 5.12 9 pitches, Wayward Son 5.12 14 pitches, The Crucifix 5.12 5 pitches, Cosmic Debris 5.13b and more.
Warme spent some time in Squamish last summer projecting Cobra Crack and repeated several 5.13+ gear climbs. We talked to Warme in January after she sent a 5.13 trad line in Yosemite, read more here.
A Wonderful Life 5.12
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