Cybernetic Bloc!!!!!
Scott Franklin, Jerry Moffat, Al Diamond, 4th maybe?, and now Brian Kim. 20 years overdue. Gear boy got the shizzz done!!! Ground up! As far as i know(and it ain’t much) Cybernetic Wall is the hardest trad. route in the Gunks. Weighing in at 5.13d. FAA.
Cybernetic Wall from paul jung on Vimeo.
Photo and video footage: John Young
May 7th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
NBD Big Up Brian. Now you are ready for three pines.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:13 am
[…] Via the guys at BassForYourFace comes this video of Brian Kim sending Cybernetic (5.13d) at the Gunks, NY ground up on natural gear. Kim’s ascent is the first in roughly 20 years after the likes of Scott Franklin and Jerry Moffatt. […]
May 8th, 2009 at 7:25 am
booo. rope dab on a high ball. v9 at best.
May 8th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Nice Brian.
Dax: No Clue
May 8th, 2009 at 8:18 am
That chicken-wing-gaston thing looks ridiculously cool.
Very awesome
May 8th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Rad send! That thing looks cool. I haven’t ever made it to the Gunks but the video makes me want to check it out.
I am curious as to know what ground up ascent means? I noticed he had the first two pieces pre-placed. Was this essentially a head point then? Or did he only work this thing on lead? I hear about ground up ascents of lots of things but often that is after it was top-roped which seems like it nullifies any ground up ascent. Either way it looks kick-ass.
May 8th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
No clue!
May 8th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
dax sounds like he bouldered that ish years ago….
May 8th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
so gearboy got sloppy fifths??
May 9th, 2009 at 7:49 am
that’s the annoying thing about the Gunks. You search and search for newness and only to find traces of Dax having done that ish years ago, and in better style.
May 9th, 2009 at 9:40 am
NICE!
May 11th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
gnarrr. leave meh some tope ropes.
May 12th, 2009 at 8:38 am
@Mikey:
When Brian lead the route, he worked it from the ground, never top roping it. So each attempt he started from the beginning, placing each piece of gear. No headpointing here.
May 12th, 2009 at 8:58 am
naw, i kept falling from seven feet up complaining that it was entirely too highball, that me knee was hurting, and that my shoes were too slimy and my feet were squishing around in them.
yeah, now THAT’S my style!
May 14th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Climbing calls this line “spicy.”
May 14th, 2009 at 7:34 am
brian called it “a walk in the park”