Rock Climber Chris Sharma Is On A Sending Rampage

Chris Sharma has been unstoppable lately. After spending a lot of time in Spain climbing with some of climbing’s greats like Dani Andrada and Patxi, Sharma has made some world class sends. Chris has done the first ascent of Jumbo Love which he graded at 5.15b at Clark Mountain. This route is like 200 feet long and Chris took massive whippers from 60-100 feet over and over. He said he had to skip a lot of the clips because you couldn’t even let go to chalk hardly clip. Not long after sending his long time project Sharma decide to take a long weekend of climbing at Maple Canyon, Utah. Maple is an awesome gem in Utah’s huge climbing scene that is made up of all these odd shaped cobbles. The climbing is can be very thuggy and quite hard to onsight, but I guess not for Chris Sharma. Sharma who had not been to Maple Canyon for at least 10 years onighted two 5.14 routes and just dominated. He onsighted the 5.14a/b T-Rex in the massive and magnificent Pipe Dream cave. On his second day Chris onsighted Whole Shot 5.13d/14a, Toxic Turkey 5.13c as well as some additional climbs located in the Pipe Dream cave. On his last day at Maple Sharma returned to the Pipe Dream cave to try Divine Fury. After he spent 24 minutes on the route and skipping the crucial (for most that is) kneebars Sharma onsighted ‘Divine Fury’ 5.14b, to say the least not a bad weekend at Maple even for Chris Sharma. Chris has definitely been on a sending rampage lately and I even heard that he is going to give a shot at El Cap. You heard my right Chris Sharma trad climbing, I know we don’t hear about that too much. I am excited to see what happens with that. Ryan Coisson is the founder of Rock Climbing For Life. You can watch a bunch of Chris Sharma Climbing Videos here at Ryan’s site.