Canadian Miles Adamson Sends New Bishop V10 Highball

Canadian Miles Adamson has sent his highball project on the Grandma Peabody Boulder in Bishop. He’s called his bold new route Too Tall to Fall V10.

“My line starts on Tiers of Uncertainty, then goes up and left to hit the 5.9 arete lip jugs,” said Adamson. “Very proud to contribute a line to Bishop highballing, as the first boulder up a famously blank face.”

Last winter, Adamson climbed Abrosia V10 highball in Bishop and the year before that he climbed a new V13 highball in Red Rocks. In 2017, Adamson became the first climber to complete the 25 top highballs in Marc Bourdon’s third-edition of the guidebook Squamish Bouldering.

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Too Tall to Fall – V10!! So excited to share that I have made the first boulder ascent of the Grandma Peabody slab. My line starts on Tiers of Uncertainty, then goes up and left to hit the 5.9 arete lip jugs. VERY proud to contribute a line to Bishop highballing, as the first boulder up a famously blank face. Thanks so much to @daniel_beall for coming out with an army of pads and the vision for the line that drew me to the wall. I hope one day Tiers proper is bouldered, it would be the boldest highball in the world. For now, taking a hard left where the wall gets steep makes this line similar to Too Big to Flail. We have a ton of video from the trip and will edit it once home. Photo by Dave Johnson

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Adamson in Squamish