{"id":2445715,"date":"2011-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/uncategorized\/alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T19:49:41","slug":"alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/climbing\/alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Puccio Crushing on Boulders and Magazine Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/21974275?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"464\" height=\"348\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p><em>Niccol\u00f2 Ceria flashes Jack&#39;s Broken Heart, one of the problems Alex Puccio climbed in Magic Wood.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alex Puccio sent two of the hardest boulders of her career this weekend, climbing Jack&#39;s Broken Heart (V12) and The Right Hand of Darkness (V11) in Magic Wood, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Jack&#39;s Broken Heart is a steep, burly problem that ascends the underside of a boulder in the wood. The line is Puccio&#39;s tenth V12, and the first she&#39;s sent this year. In her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8a.nu\/?IncPage=http%3A\/\/www.8a.nu\/scorecard\/Search.aspx%3FSearchType%3DASCENTS%26CragName%3DMagic+wood%26AscentName%3Djack%252527s+broken+heart%26AscentType%3D1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"8a.nu--Alex Puccio\" rel=\"noopener\">8a.nu logbook<\/a>, Puccio wrote that the problem had a &#8220;scary first move and a bit of a scary top,&#8221; but noted that it had taken her just &#8220;a few tries&#8221; to climb it.<\/p>\n<p>Puccio is currently traveling and competing in Europe, and is one of just a few American climbers on the World Cup circuit. The 21-year-old has received an increasing amount of mainstream media attention, and recently appeared on the cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prana.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/alex-puccio-covers-experience-life-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alex Puccio Covers Experience Life\" rel=\"noopener\">Experience Life magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø featured Puccio on the cover of its October issue last year. Find more on her in our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/adventure\/travel-ta-201010-alex-puccio-sidwcmdev_151764.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"XX Factor--Alex Puccio\" rel=\"noopener\">XX Factor gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/adnroy\" target=\"_self\" title=\"@adnroy\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam Roy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Niccol\u00f2 Ceria flashes Jack&#39;s Broken Heart, one of the problems Alex Puccio climbed in Magic Wood. Alex Puccio sent two of the hardest boulders of her career this weekend, climbing Jack&#39;s Broken Heart (V12) and The Right Hand of Darkness (V11) in Magic Wood, Switzerland. Jack&#39;s Broken Heart is a steep, burly problem that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/climbing\/alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"uuid":"d950f6dd945e4ce6a74bbbce3aa89fc0","footnotes":""},"categories":[2543],"tags":[2653,2640],"byline":[],"ad_cat":[],"legacy-category":[],"class_list":["post-2445715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing","tag-athletes","tag-climbing"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Alex Puccio Crushing on Boulders and Magazine Covers","url":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/climbing\/alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/outdoor-adventure\/climbing\/alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Climbing","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"sperkins-pom"}],"creator":["sperkins-pom"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Online","logo":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/favicon-194x194-1.png"},"keywords":["athletes","climbing"],"dateCreated":"2011-05-03T00:00:00Z","datePublished":"2011-05-03T00:00:00Z","dateModified":"2022-02-24T19:49:41Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"Alex Puccio Crushing on Boulders and Magazine Covers\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.outsideonline.com\\\/outdoor-adventure\\\/climbing\\\/alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.outsideonline.com\\\/outdoor-adventure\\\/climbing\\\/alex-puccio-crushing-boulders-and-magazine-covers\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Climbing\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"sperkins-pom\"}],\"creator\":[\"sperkins-pom\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Online\",\"logo\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.outsideonline.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/07\\\/favicon-194x194-1.png\"},\"keywords\":[\"athletes\",\"climbing\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-05-03T00:00:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-05-03T00:00:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-02-24T19:49:41Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/outsideonline.com\/p.js"},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Online","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.outsideonline.com","push-errors":false,"dek":"","gallery_subhead":"","syndicated":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488669,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445715\/revisions\/2488669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445715"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2445715"},{"taxonomy":"ad_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ad_cat?post=2445715"},{"taxonomy":"legacy-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/legacy-category?post=2445715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}