Mallorca - Cala Santanyi - DWS Es Pontas (9a+)

Chris Sharma described his “arch project” as a 65-foot deep-water solo. The wildly overhanging line includes a difficult, seven-foot dyno, 35 feet above the sea. (This alone took Sharma roughly 50 attempts.) He had linked up through the dyno and out an easier, 5.13a face finish, but didn’t feel that this was the integral route, which climbs up through
the dyno and continues out the belly of the arch via technical heel hooking and powerful slapping. Sharma said that the climbing remains difficult until the 55-foot mark. In typical Sharma style, he declined to grade the arch, but his own comparisons to the world’s first legitimate 5.15a give some perspective to its difficulty.