[JackAus]

Alex Megos has just done the FA of a long standing project in the Blue Mountains.

Bolted by Garth Miller (I think back in the late 90s), loads of people have thrown themselves at "The Red Project" at Diamond Falls.
Not sure on the name yet, hopefully not something shit like Das Pumphouse...

[tomtom]

Pumpenhaus mate..

[r-man]

Wheel of Life is 9a though? First on a rope then.

[JackAus]

Pumpenhaus mate..

Thought it was obvious that I didn't need the 

Wheel of Life is 9a though? First on a rope then.

9a+/V15... Yeah first route/on a rope.

[r-man]

If you want to do slash grades it should be V14/9a/V15/9a+   

Or 9b if you have to battle a drop bear just after the crux.

[JackAus]

And its now called "Retired Extremely Dangerous".

[JackAus]

And some pics:





http://www.nickfletcherphotography.com/2013/08/r-e-d/

[dave]

Someone really needs to school that kid on problem naming.

[remus]

Someone really needs to school that kid on problem naming.

Word.

Looks like a class line though.

[SA Chris]

+ to the above. Beware, dropbear would be a better name.

[Grubes]

I like the name geeky comic book(/film) reference and keeping with the project name.

[SA Chris]

Aha, didn't get reference.

And great pics from our own control freak.

[JackAus]

Good stuff from Simon Carter here:
http://www.onsight.com.au/2013/08/oz-gets-grade-35-9a/

[Control freak]

Was pretty impressive to watch - I photographed him the weekend before also flashing an 8b and doing another route next to it first go, that takes in the same start but a different finish and weighs in at around 8b+\8c. He's by far the smoothest climber Ive ever seem and its really difficult to judge how hard the moves are as it all seems so effortless.

[SA Chris]

I heard you were elbowing Simon Carter in the face like a proper pap!

In other news https://www.facebook.com/#!/VerticalLifeMag?hc_location=stream

In a little bit of previously unreported news, Simon Carter has just told us that Alex Megos did a new link up in the Hollow Mountain Cave that is even harder than the Wheel of Life (which he though was 9a/35). The new link up is called Wheelchair (9a+/36)

The climbing gets harder, the names get shitter.

[Doylo]

He's a lot better at climbing than naming FAs 

[r-man]

I like how he gives things silly names. To the rest of us, they might seem like grand, epic lines deserving awesome inspirational titles, but he's ticking them off in a day or two - they clearly aren't monster projects for someone at his level. Cue daft names. Wait until he projects something for a month, then see what he comes up with...

...And I'll love it if its equally irreverant.

[Doylo]

Strange that Oz has only just entered the 9th grade given the rock there and the beasts that visit .Wales has had it for 17 years and its much smaller

[JackAus]

Strange that Oz has only just entered the 9th grade given the rock there and the beasts that visit .Wales has had it for 17 years and its much smaller

Have to remember that the climbing population is so much smaller here..... Definitely about time... Only got the first 8c+ in 2006... And there's only 4 of them now... (think its still 4)(and the first one is only half hour away)

[miso soup]

What and where are the 4 8c+s, out of interest?  I'm kind of surprised Garth never got this done.  I used to sit on the boulder balcony at the St Peters wall in Sydney and watch him casually flash all the epic roof testpieces, spending more time shaking out than most people spent on the whole route.  I reckon we're going to see a lot more big numbers in Australia in the future.

[JackAus]

White Ladder - Nowra 2004 (thought it was 06!)
Mr Pink - Blueys 2006
Too Hot To Handle - Blueys 2007
Sneaky Old Fox - Blueys 2009
Southern Delight - Gramps 2012 (Forgot Killian had done this)

[JackAus]

I heard you were elbowing Simon Carter in the face like a proper pap!

In other news https://www.facebook.com/#!/VerticalLifeMag?hc_location=stream

In a little bit of previously unreported news, Simon Carter has just told us that Alex Megos did a new link up in the Hollow Mountain Cave that is even harder than the Wheel of Life (which he though was 9a/35). The new link up is called Wheelchair (9a+/36)

The climbing gets harder, the names get shitter.

He told me that he did something starting at Sleepy Hollow (v11) into Stimulation (v11) via a snippet of Stuck South but climbed backwards. I'm pretty sure that'll be it!

[Stubbs]

I'm surprised Garth Miller never did a 9a in Oz, he seemed plenty strong enough from his bouldering!

[petejh]

Strange that Oz has only just entered the 9th grade given the rock there and the beasts that visit .Wales has had it for 17 years and its much smaller

It's not confirmed that Wales has any 9's though is it.

[Doylo]

2 votes for 9a from Carson and Caff. How many more does it need? Also Ben Moon and Pete didn't seem to quibble