{"id":80,"date":"2008-08-09T01:39:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T23:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2008-08-27T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T11:37:29","slug":"first-ascent-of-holka-risset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"First Ascent of Holka Risset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On Thursday I discovered a fantastic probably unclimbed line on the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">island<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> of <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Bornholm<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Denmark<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">. It was only 6\u00bdm high, but what a line! A clean thin finger crack came down the grey granite of Holkadalen. It had to be climbed by me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> Should I climb it as a Route or just try to do it as a scary highball boulder? It looked hard and I figured that I would have no chance of placing gear while climbing.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I brought out the crash pad and recruited Heidi as my spotter. It was hard, my fingers could barely fit in the crack and brutal finger locks was the only way of progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It took me a few tries to condition myself to accept the pain while jamming my fingers. I was at the point of resigning, but all of a sudden it all came together. What a fantastic line, this will surely become a classic.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Holka Risset, 7a\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3128\/2740709037_e63d3774f3.jpg\" alt=\"The first ascent of Holka Risset\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first ascent of Holka Risset, 7a, Holkadalen, Bornholm, Denmark.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday I discovered a fantastic probably unclimbed line on the island of Bornholm, Denmark. It was only 6\u00bdm high, but what a line! A clean thin finger crack came down the grey granite of Holkadalen. It had to be climbed by me. Should I climb it as a Route or just try to do&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/?p=80\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing-2","tag-bornholm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontpoint-sport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}