Romain Desgranges reports that he has done the two Branson classics, La Danse des Balrogs and Radja, suggested to be the first 8B and 8B+ by Fred Nicole in 1995. Later, new and easier variations have been found and some say the two named boulders are eliminations, like earlier reported here on 8a. This year Romain has been #4 in two lead world cup events.


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