The Grand Illusion (V16) First Ascent

The Grand Illusion follows Nathaniel Coleman and Drew Ruana as they throw themselves at a notorious American testpiece: the low start into Euro Roof in Little Cottonwood Canyon. With the legacy of Chris Sharma’s original line in the background, this is a session where power, patience, and precision have to align for anything to go. What makes it gripping is the mix of top-end difficulty and real-time problem solving—micro-adjustments, skin management, and the mental reset between attempts when the margin for error is basically zero. If you love seeing elite boulderers battle an “undone” project and slowly turn chaos into sequence, this one delivers.

mellow · 13:36

Nathaniel Coleman and Drew Ruana battling against one of the best and hardest undone project in the US, the low start to Euro Roof, a V13 in Little Cottonwood Canyon put up by Chris Sharma