Val-David’s New Test-piece

to the Trango Valley were foiled by ter ror ism and violence, JeanPier re “Pee Wee” Ouellet decided to stay in Quebec and take care of old business. The result was the first ascent of Hypothenuse, 5.13c, at Val-David. “There is still a lot to do in Quebec, just in the last season I have opened three new routes. I am working on another which will be the hardest, all obvious cracks that no one has tr ied before. The hardest move on Hypothenuse is at the beginning, sloppy hands to a finger lock. It took me five or six days to climb it, I was ver y happy,” said Pee Wee.