Garnbret Targets Historic First on 9b+ Bibliographie

Garnbret targets historic first on 9b+ Bibliographie

After a nine-month break from competition, Slovenia's two-time Olympic champion Janja Garnbret will launch into the 35-metre limestone of Bibliographie on the south face of Mt. Céüse in France in mid-June hoping to become the first woman ever to master the 9b+ route, one of only a handful climbs on Earth at that grade. Graded just shy of the highest possible grade of 9c and pitched in 2009, the limestone route was first climbed eleven years late…