Video: Chris Sharma Climbs Old School 5.14
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Just outside the town of Mouriès, France, in the small Alpilles Mountains, sits an iconic route from the 1980s called, Magie Blanche (White Magic). This twenty meter high, dead-vertical wall of 8b+ (5.14a) has little in common with the routes typically scaled by today’s sport climbers. On October 16, Chris Sharma took on the challenge.