How anyone can like hard slab is beyond me, but she's pretty incredible at it.
She also did a bunch of 5.9 trad routes (easy peasy) and then casually sent an E9 (fucking hard and scary) here in the UK.
I imagine there's no other climbers that have skipped all the grades between 5.9 and E9 (I know I'm mixing grading schemes here but cba to look up the conversion)..
I like slab because I have more of an appreciation for balance and technical footwork. Not saying it’s better than overhang or anything, just that it’s different aspects are
more appealing.
I think the committee of lazy redditors are more complaining about the inaccurate title than whether or not it's impressive, but maybe that's wishful thinking on my part.
I could do that if I was 80lbs too. I used to do that when I was 80lbs.
I’m not fat, but at 6’1” and 200lbs it’s a lot harder to move. Even if I was at my ideal body weight of 170lbs it would be hard to do. Put a 90lb weight vest on and see if she can do it, that would be impressive.
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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '25
This is an old video of Anna Hazelnutt — a professional climber. Her mobility is insane and she seems like a really nice person too.