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Laura Rogora Redpoints Yet Another 5.15a
Laura Rogora is currently on a sport climbing trip to Saint-Léger, France. As is usual for her, she’s having a very sendy trip. She just announced that she sent La Castagne 5.15a (9a+). Opened by Adam Ondra in 2018, La Castagne saw a second ascent from Alex Megos in 2021 and a third ascent from Alex Rohr in 2022. Rogora’s send is the first female ascent of the line. Megos called the route 5.14d/15a but Ondra, Rohr, and Rogora believe it to be 5.15a.
Rogora also announced that she redpointed Les Petits Chefs du Néant 5.14b. “I was quite close to onsight but not enough,” she said about her ascent. Earlier on her trip, Rogora sent the famous Supercrackinette 5.15a. She also ticked Le Cadafist 5.14d/15a in only four attempts and onsighted Le Concept 5.14a.
A couple of weeks ago, she made the first ascent of L’Ultimo Ruggito 5.14d in Gole del Melfa, Italy. For her warm-up that day, she onsighted Leoni Alfa 5.14b, and to cool down, she sent another 5.14b, Lo Squalo di Macerata. If there’s any climber in the world who could use a mega-project, it’s Rogora. She puts away 5.14d and 5.15a routes with lightning speed, likely meaning that she’d have success on even harder routes if she devoted more of her time to them.
Until recently, 5.14b was the hardest grade to have been onsighted by a woman. It was Rogora who broke the record in July of this year with her onsight of Ultimate Sacrifice 5.14c in Gorges du Loup. On the same day, she ticked Trip Tik Tonik, 5.14d. Her hardest first female ascent to date is Erebor 5.15b, which she climbed in 2021. She has many 5.15a sends, most of which were female first ascents.
Alex Megos on La Castagne 5.15a
Laura Rogora on Supercrackinette 5.15a
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