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16-year-old conquers Pollensa pine tree

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There was an “unwritten rule” for this 12 months’s Sant Antoni pine climb in Pollensa that no minors (under-18s) had been allowed to aim the climb. However this did not deter 16-year-old Pau Cifre. Junior judo champion of the Balearics, he reached the highest of the pine on Wednesday night and launched the confetti in what was one of many shortest ever occasions.

It was solely 8.27pm, the tree not having been lastly able to climb till 8.07pm. Just one individual had tried the climb earlier than Pau succeeded. Usually, the occasion does go on longer. Final 12 months it did not end till 12.34am. A mixture of rain, hail and an excessive amount of lard on the trunk made the climb notably precarious.

The tree was simpler to climb this 12 months, the entire occasion – from assortment of the pine from the Ternelles finca to its planting in Plaça Vella after which the climb itself – having gone with out a hitch for as soon as. It did take over half an hour to manoeuvre the tree into the sq., however there have been no mishaps like these of the latest previous.

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