Watch Kaddi Lehmann Send Kryptos V15
A new video about the historic 2018 climb

For Kaddi Lehmann, climbing a V15 all started with fixing the gears on her old mountain bike. But those accumulated miles she pedaled uphill to Kryptos, an aesthetic limestone seam in the Swiss Jura, paled in comparison to the internal journey she endured to reach the top of that boulder.
“In middle of May 2018 I could climb the boulder Kryptos graded [8C],” German climber Kaddi Lehmann reported on Instagram. Kryptos was established by Franz Widmer in 2009, and Fred Nicole snagged a repeat later that year. Lehmann’s is the third overall ascent, and she is now the second woman in history to send V15; the first being Ashima Shiraishi.