Paul Robinson Climbs New V15 in South Africa
Paul Robinson has made the first ascent of The Dragon’s Guardian V15 at Cederberg in South Africa. He found the boulder in 2014 and never imagines a line like this going. “I can clearly remember seeing this boulder for the first time out in the distance,” Robinson said. “I ran over excited, not knowing what I would find underneath the roof. I quickly spied an easier line that would later become Ddragon’s Eye, but to the left remained a nearly blank section of perfect stone that almost begged to be climbed.”
Robinson did not return until this year with two more years of hard bouldering behind him. “Days went by on it, some good, some bad, but each day I learned and broke down the sequences one by one,” said Robinson. One day, after a big storm, he sent the new V15. “No words can describe what it is like for me to find and climb all of these first ascents. I just feel extremely lucky and grateful for the opportunity that I have been given.”
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