Watch Shawn Raboutou’s First Hits on World’s First V17, ‘Burden of Desires’

The world’s most embellished V17 climber began attempting the world’s first V17 boulder downside.

Right here’s the way it went for him and Giuliano Cameroni, who joined in on the enjoyable. 

The title suggests the end result, as does the truth that each climbing outlet on the web didn’t explode over the weekend. And despite the fact that Raboutou’s onscreen persona is about as full of life as moist bread, this clip’s price looking ahead to one sequence particularly.

Skip to 2:45 or so and take heed to him describe the extent of confidence that he’ll flash in Burden of Desires. Then watch for what occurs subsequent, and prepare for the relatability to clean over you.

Raboutou is the one climber with multiple V17 (9A) boulder downside ship. He has two. Spoiler alert: That was nonetheless the case as of the top of this video.

Runtime: 14 minutes