BURSTJanja Garnbret has repeated Bibliographie 5.15c in Céüse, France, marking her first climb at the grade. Garnbret is the second woman to climb 5.15c, after Brooke Raboutou sent Excalibur in spring 2020. Bibliographie features more than 80 moves over 35 metres of climbing.
Alex Megos made the first ascent of Bibliographie in August 2020, originally suggesting a grade of 5.15d. The route’s second ascent came just over a year later from Stefano Ghisolfi, who proposed 5.15c after finding more efficient beta, an adjustment Megos agreed with. Sean Bailey made the third ascent in September 2021, followed by Sébastien Bouin in June 2023. Jorge Diaz-Rullo climbed it later in 2023. Garnbret is the first to send it since Diaz-Rullo.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist shared her stoke about the send with Red Bull here: “It feels incredible. It’s honestly really hard to describe. When the send happens, everything is smooth, everything is perfect. You basically don’t feel what you’re climbing anymore.
“This route required a lot of commitment, going up, all the time, trying, failing, failing again, failing again. Again and again until I succeeded. Usually, in the past, if I couldn’t do a route in two to three tries, I would walk away and never come back. But this route required me to be a different climber. To commit, to be patient – the challenge was mostly mental.”
Last fall, Garnbret flashed Pure Dreaming 5.14+ in Italy as one of the hardest flashes ever accomplished – read more about it here.
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