The North Face Presents: Nathaniel Coleman - "No One Mourns the Wicked" V17/9A - First Ascent

In this film, Nathaniel Coleman heads back to Thunder Ridge, Colorado to chase a new standard in modern bouldering: the first ascent of “No One Mourns the Wicked,” graded V17/9A. Building on the legacy of Daniel Woods’s original line “Defying Gravity,” Nathaniel sets his sights on an audacious low start that turns an already brutal problem into something bordering on the impossible. What makes this worth watching is the obsession with a single, low-percentage move—one of those razor-thin cruxes where every attempt teaches you something, and mastery is earned the hard way. It’s a sharp, focused look at elite-level projecting: precision, patience, and the mental grind of returning until the move finally unlocks.

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Dating back to Daniel Woods’s first ascent a decade ago, people said there could be a low start to Defying Gravity V15. But people thought the single move on Defying Gravity might be one of the hardest single moves in the world. It was thought that climbing a v13/ 8B boulder into such a difficult and low percentage move could be impossible. Nathaniel decided that this year he would go back to Thunder Ridge Colorado and see if he could truly master the move and add in this new and difficult intro. This is the story behind the first ascent of No One Mourns the Wicked V17. “Donnie Brasco” by KNOW GOOD. Stream Here: https://m.soundcloud.com/weareknowgood