BURSTYesterday, Stefano Ghisolfi topped Anam Cara Low V15 (8C) at Silvapark in Austria. It’s the Italian climber’s hardest bouldering send to date. Two days prior to his Anam Cara Low ascent, he completed Anam Cara V14 in only a few attempts. On that same day, he sent one V10, three V11s, and two V12s.
Although Anam Cara Low is Ghisolfi’s first official V15 boulder, he has completed the crux of Adam Ondra’s Silence 5.15d, a sequence that goes at V15 at a minimum. With Anam Cara, Ghisolfi now has five V14s to his name, his first being Gandalf il Grigio in Varazze, Italy way back in 2012.
Before this bouldering spree, Ghilsolfi focused musch of the Spring 2025 season on one major goal: climb four 5.15b (9b) routes, each at different crag in Spain. He ended up completing three of the four routes he set out to do. In mid-February, he made the third ascent of Alex Megos’ The Full Journey 5.15b in Margalef. A few weeks later at the beginning of March, he made the fourth ascent of Chris Sharma’s Sleeping Lion 5.15b in Siurana. Two weeks after that he threw down Sharma’s Neanderthal 5.15b in Santa Linya, again making the fourth ascent of the line.
The last route on his list was Sharma’s Fight of Flight 5.15b in Oliana. The route proved to be the most difficult for Ghisolfi, spending more projecting days than any of the other three routes. He completed The Full Journey in nine sessions, Sleeping Lion in eleven, and Neanderthal in nine. With temps warming into the 30s, he had to leave the project uncompleted.
Stefano Ghiolfi climbing Anam Cara V14
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