BURSTOn March 11, Will Bosi made the first ascent of El Dorado Sit V15 (8C) in Sintra, Portugal. The problem adds four hard moves into the start of El Dorado V12, which Bosi established on March 4. Before Bosi’s first ascent, El Dorado had been one of Sintra’s oldest projects. The line is a two-move crimp problem that Bosi said is difficult to grade.
“What an incredible line!” said Bosi on Instagram about El Dorado Sit. “Super psyched to manage to get this done and establish potentially Sintra’s hardest line? It felt harder than Mito [V14] which I sent last year but I feel like it’s so hard to know with the rock type here. In total it’s just 6 moves and all comes down [to] the stand crux move which felt like it almost went up a grade each extra move I added.”
Bosi also visited Sintra in April last year. His highlight of the visit was making the second ascent of Jun Shibanuma’s Mito V14. He also repeated Pena Perpetua V13 and made the first ascent of Eye of Fire V12.
Bosi has climbed four V17 boulders. In October 2022, he sent his first of the grade, making the third ascent of Shawn Raboutou’s Alphane. Less than six months later, he bagged his second V17 with his second ascent of Nalle Hukkataival’s Burden of Dreams. In February last year, he made the second ascent of Daniel Woods’ Return of the Sleepwalker in Red Rock, Nevada. In October, he surprised many with a rapid second ascent of Aidan Roberts’ Spots of Time. He’s also no slouch on a rope, with the second ascent of Excalibur 5.15c to his name.
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