If you climb, there’s a change you’ll last through the entire 6:37 clip of Iker Pou conquering the heinous, overhanging Nit de Bruixes (Witch’s Night) in Margalef, Spain. But you don’t ever have to have dipped into a chalkbag to be blown away. Watch from 3:30 to 4:19 to witness something supernatural. Pou repeatedly hangs his entire body off of one or, at most, three fingers on an unrelentingly inverted wall with nothing even remotely resembling a rest for nearly the entire 80-foot length. It’s not merely painful looking; it’s finger-popping gnarly. And yet he cleans what’s believed to be a 5.15a route thanks to a special gift: extra-thick digits. As his brother Eneko says, Iker’s fingers aren’t just thicker than average, they’re “paranormal.”
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