A team of three American climbers has made an alpine-style first ascent on the rarely-climbed north face of Jannu (Khumbakarna) 7,710m in eastern Nepal. The team consisting of Matt Cornell, Jackson Marvell and Alan Rousseau climbed over seven days and named their new line Round Trip Ticket ( M7 AI5+ A0) 2,700m.

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Wow. That's clearly utterly nails.  Such fiercly intimidating terrain for so long.

I wondered what is the A0 part(s)? Presumably a pendulum or tension traverse, given the standard of the free climbing was so high that they would be able to blast through most stopper moves.

That's a very strong effort - chapeau.

Didn't Roskelly make an ascent on that line 30+ years ago? Vague bells are ringing.

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M7 at 7000mts, insane, what an ascent