Mari Augusta Salvesen Flashes Belly Full of Bad Berries 5.13b Trad
From difficult boulders to hard big walls, she's one of Norway's most accomplished all-round climbers
Photo by: Pete Whittaker
Norwegian climber Mari Augusta Salvesen has made quick work of the Indian Creek test-piece Belly Full of Bad Berries 5.13 on Critic’s Choice wall. The route was first climbed in 1997 by Brad Jackson.
The route overhangs 45 degrees and follows a 25-metre offwidth. She was joined by wide crack climbing specialists Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker who cheered her on and yelled beta after she onsighted the first third.
“A total pleasure to watch such a great effort of gnarly determination, route reading skill and offwidth grind,” said Randall. “I’m pretty sure she had to invert at least another third of the route compared to me and Pete, which makes it even more impressive. Hard size for Mari for sure.”
In 2019, Salvesen made the first female ascent of the burly Ray’s Roof E7 6c at Baldstones in Staffordshire, which was first climbed by visiting American Ray Jardine in 1977. The horizontal offwidth crack remains a gritstone test-piece and is one of the hardest of its kind in the U.K.
Some of Salvesen’s other impressive climbs, include The Shield C4/A3 on El Capitan. Master’s Edge E7 6b in the Peak District, U.K., Misanthropie V11 in Fontainebleau and Byrkjedalsfossen WI5+ 350m in Rogaland, Norway.
Adam Ondra on Belly Full of Bad Berries 5.13b
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