Weekend Whipper: Sport Climber Rips Off Huge Flake, Narrowly Misses Belayer

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The power-endurance testpiece State of Grace (5.13b), at California’s Echo Cliffs, is even more of a power-endurance testpiece after Matt Wheat’s last go on the 100-foot line.

“The big block about a third of the way up served as the last rest and the good foot for the crux sequence, [and it] ripped out on me,” Wheat wrote on Mountain Project. “The block was tenuous...