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Watch Mina Leslie-Wujastyk Send Pumpy Norway 5.14

Mina Leslie-Wujastyk has repeated the 50-metre Nordic Plumber 5.14b at Flatanger, Norway, watch the send below.

The first ascent was by Ethan Pringle in 2012 and it’s been repeated a number of times, including a recent send by top climber Katherine Choong.

In a report Leslie-Wujastyk wrote on her blog here, she said that her trip to Flatanger wasn’t planned, as she and her partner David Mason were on a bouldering trip.

“Flatanger is incredible,” Leslie-Wujastyk wrote. “The area is mind-blowingly beautiful with fjords, great expanses of open water, lush greenery and epic skies. It’s a very calming place to be. The climbing is really unique: very steep in the cave but also some long, less steep routes on the left wall.

“The granite is impeccable and you very much climb a feature rather than hold-to-hold. It felt like a very special place, a simple existence built around climbing, fishing, picking berries and spending time with like-minded people. The atmosphere was one of psyche and support, with everyone invested in each other’s ventures.”

After working on Nordic Plumber, Leslie-Wujastyk had to return home but planned a trip to return for the end of the summer.

“Perspective is so important and equally so easy to lose sight of,” she wrote. “It was supposed to be a bouldering trip, I was coming back from an injury (I couldn’t do a pull up two months before!), and I hadn’t even planned to try the route.

“I’m really grateful to have had the climbing experience I had, even the anxiety, because I learnt lots from it. My mental game is far from perfect and I need to continue to look at and manage my expectations when it comes to hard climbing.”

Nordic Plumber Send

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