Illya Bakhmet-Smolenskyi Becomes Youngest to Send 5.14d

Illya Bakhmet-Smolenskyi has sent Chromosome X at Charmey and has become the youngest climber to send 5.14d.

Adam Ondra was 13 years, nine months and six days old when her first climbed 5.14d, Bakhmet-Smolenskyi was five days younger than Ondra. Ashima Shiraishi was nearly 14 when she ticked her first.

Bakhmet-Smolenskyi said his beta is much different that Permin Bertle who made the first ascent. The line he followed is much different than Bertle, who is much taller.

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The climber’s site 8a.nu reported him saying, “My first try of the grade. Perfect route. My beta is totally different from Pirmins.”

“This trip was full of surprises,” Bakhmet-Smolenskyi is reported as saying on 8a.nu “I did not expect this crag to be so beautiful and diverse. I also did not expect the routes and even parts of the routes to be so different by types of climbing.

“Speaking of the route, it astonished me. Although I could do every move in the lower part, (using Pirmin’s beta), I couldn’t combine it. Quite the same situation happened with the upper part. One move I could not do. So that is the reason why I made a totally different beta.”

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