Jean-Baptiste Tribout

https://www.instagram.com/p/72DU26vF5X/

2ns ascent after Dave Pegg. Described by Jibe as 'The Perfect 8b'

2nd ascent. Date not exact. Jibe apparently found the endurance style of this route to his liking but found the shorter, more bouldery Mecca - The Mid-life Crisis much harder and didn't manage to redpoint it during his stay in the UK

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing (1991) by David Jones, page 192

'Stolen' from the locals, the name is JB's opinion of himself!

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing, David Jones, 1991

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing (1991) by David Jones, page 192

Pre-1991. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing (1991) by David Jones, page 192

As for the controversy, even if no one had tried the route when I started, Allan Watts bolted the line and tried it a little bit, and at that time the belief was that a line belonged to their bolter and no one else could have a go. So there was some tension with a few locals ... The cool thing is that on the very evening of my success, the boss of Metolius [Doug Philips] invited us to the best restaurant in Bend to celebrate and that, the next day, a doctor/climber organised a big party at his place with locals climbers and we partied, drank, consumed a lot of illicit substances, and it was a wonderful moment of reconciliation with the local community. This route and this ascent have been one of the peaks of my climbing career, one of the times I was certainly the strongest. At this famous party, I moreover won the pull-up contest, on cocaine it's true, but clocking 80 pull-ups in a row nonetheless… That's still a pretty number! [1]

References

[1] https://fanatic-climbing.com/il-etait-une-voie-once-upon-a-line-just-do-it/

[2] http://novebi.ning.com/group/smithrockclimbing/forum/topics/1389802:Topic:20521

[3] https://www.instagram.com/p/CfAO2ikvrr1/

https://youtu.be/1D5l14800GQ?t=2231

Date not exact.

https://youtu.be/1D5l14800GQ?t=3026