Carlo Traversi and Colin Duffy Climb V15
The two American climbers have been making headlines for their impressive sends for years
American climbers Carlo Traversi and Colin Duffy have both recently climbed V15, adding to their impressive lists of sends.
Carlo Traversi, 36, who’s climbed several V15s in the past, has climbed the classic The Big Island V15 in Fontainebleau. On 8a.nu, he said, “It took quite a bit of work to refine everything and I managed to slip off the lip a few times, but was lucky to pull off one of those effortless feeling sends today before heading home in a few days. As with everything in the forest, it’s always about positioning, and I learned some nice lessons with this one. Considering where I’m at these days I would say this is probably the easiest 8C I’ve climbed, but I still think it warrants the grade.”
And Olympic climber Colin Duffy, 21, has repeated Pegasus V15 in Joe’s Valley, Utah. This is his fourth boulder of the grade. About it he said, “Pegasus is the low start to Pagan Poetry Low (8B) which is the low start to Pagan Poetry (8A). I flashed Pagan Poetry and did the intro sequence of Pegasus on my first try, so after figuring out the crux of Pagan Low I started giving attempts from the start. After about 4-5 tries I found myself at the top.
Duffy plans on competing at this year’s IFSC World Cups and World Championships. There hasn’t been a lot of huge bouldering news so far in 2025, but Adam Ondra did climb his fierst V17 earlier this year – read about it here.
