Kanal im Rücken | 8b Sport route

First ascent.

It is the motivation you have when you are standing there looking at a wall. You pick out the hardest section of rock and look for the route of least resistance in that section. You see only a few minuscule holes or edges and you know you can make it up there, you alone. Then you get excited about it, what the Americans call psyching up. You experience an explosion of energy totally from within. [1]

References

[1] Hepp, T., Güllich, W. (1994). Wolfgang Güllich: Life in the Vertical : a Biography. Germany: Boulder Edition.

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