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Italian Duo Completes 21-pitch 5.13 — After three seasons of work, Matteo Della Bordella and Fabio Palma have completed Coelophysis, a 21-pitch 5.13c on the 2,000-foot-high Mahren sector of Switzerland’s Wendenstöcke cliffs. Della Bordella, 24, redpointed the crux fourth pitch, “a very technical 8a+ (5.13c).” Coelophysis is now the longest route on the 9,980-foot mountain’s water-carved limestone walls.
