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#225 Re: Megoswad
November 11, 2016, 09:40:43 pm
It seems from Instagash he's in the peak - Anyone know what he's been on?

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#226 Re: Megoswad
November 12, 2016, 07:07:51 am
 Surprise entry to Battle of Britain?

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#227 Re: Megoswad
November 12, 2016, 08:39:10 am
It seems from Instagash he's in the peak - Anyone know what he's been on?

He's over for Kendal next week but just came early to train and hang out.

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#228 Re: Megoswad
November 12, 2016, 04:49:10 pm
Surprise entry to Battle of Britain?

Should have picked some lottery numbers too...

https://twitter.com/depotmanchester/status/797414312470056960

Nice photobomb by Dobbin there... :)

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#229 Re: Megoswad
November 13, 2016, 09:57:51 am
I heard he was over to settle a certain score with his wildcard nemesis.

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#230 Re: Megoswad
June 21, 2017, 09:28:33 am
Céüse's Jungle Boogie, 9a+, in three tries.

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#231 Re: Megoswad
June 21, 2017, 11:07:21 am
Céüse's Jungle Boogie, 9a+, in three tries.

Ondra did the FA in 2012 and I thought it was three days, not 3 tries. Or has someone else done it in three tries?

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#232 Re: Megoswad
June 21, 2017, 11:09:35 am
Céüse's Jungle Boogie, 9a+, in three tries.

Ondra did the FA in 2012 and I thought it was three days, not 3 tries. Or has someone else done it in three tries?

Doh! This is Megoswad thread! I understand now. Just a bit slow today

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#233 Re: Megoswad
July 23, 2017, 05:36:12 am
 he's repeated the Finnish Line https://www.instagram.com/p/BW2wbGKBDQq/

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#234 Re: Megoswad
July 23, 2017, 07:14:18 am
is that the longest he has ever spent on any rock climb?

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#235 Re: Megoswad
July 23, 2017, 08:57:08 am
is that the longest he has ever spent on any rock climb?



Lucid dreaming took him 11 days, in the video of it he says that was his longest project with the second longest he'd spent being 6 days. Will be good viewing when he gets drawn in by something even harder.

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#236 Re: Megoswad
July 23, 2017, 09:50:03 am
I think he's on 3 days and counting for The Joker.

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#237 Re: Megoswad
July 25, 2017, 07:17:04 pm
Having stood underneath the 'Finnish Line' a few weeks back I'm seriously impressed at this. Top class from Nalle to have the vision to do something so mind bending in the first place but also fairplay to Megos for having the giant Kahunas needed to go and try such a line!

P.S. I am yet to see a picture which even half does the line some justice yet. Think Careless Torque at 30 degrees overhanging with another 2 metres added on the top and a total dogshit, slopping tree platform landing. Only thing I've ever seen which I literally cant comprehend anyone climbing!

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#238 Re: Megoswad
July 28, 2017, 08:17:49 am
Yeah it's a seriously impressive piece of rock! I'm a bit disappointed nobodies taken a more landscape-y shot of it because it's hugely aesthetic.

This is a shitty shot I got whip wandering around looking at other stuff, it starts just behind the tree  https://imgur.com/gallery/nVSvf

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#239 Re: Megoswad
August 03, 2017, 12:58:57 pm

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#240 Re: Megoswad
September 09, 2017, 10:37:08 am
Twelve routes 8c or harder in 8 days (and two 8b+ and a training session indoors apparently). Among them four 9as: Speed Integral, Im Reich des Shogun, Coup de Grace and Sid Lives.

Eric Talmadge worked Im Reich des Shogun took on and off for thirteen years before climbing it in year 2000, since then it's only been repeated by Adam Ondra and now Alex Megos.

https://planetgrimpe.com/2017/09/une-semaine-de-folie-pour-alex-megos/

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#241 Re: Megoswad
November 03, 2017, 09:54:25 am
8c+ flash, is that news nowadays?

According to Fanatic Climbing, Megos flashed Capricorn, the hardest route at Leonidas. Capricorn is a 12 meters Killian Fischhuber route originally graded 9a but recently downgraded to 8c+ when a better method was found.

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#242 Re: Megoswad
April 19, 2018, 09:25:32 pm
He's nipped in for a quick repeat of Era Vella according to fanatic climbing on facebook.

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#243 Re: Megoswad
May 09, 2018, 05:35:01 pm
Has done Perfecto Mundo, Margalef mega project.

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#244 Re: Megoswad
May 09, 2018, 09:16:31 pm

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#245 Re: Megoswad
May 09, 2018, 11:07:09 pm
Today? It's warm, humid and no wind. Far from perfect conditions.

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#246 Re: Megoswad
May 09, 2018, 11:42:44 pm

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#247 Re: Megoswad
May 11, 2018, 04:03:40 am
Nice vid.

And there was me, all the way through that endless shakeout, thinking, was that a bit of tension @1.35? - which seemed to become increasingly irrelevant.. until.. doh!  :slap:

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#248 Re: Megoswad
May 11, 2018, 09:54:56 am
The moves on that look incredible.

Megos always looks like he finds himself so light. He almost floats up half the time.

Anyone know how long this took him? Quickest ascent of a 9b+?

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#249 Re: Megoswad
May 11, 2018, 10:19:07 am
The moves on that look incredible.

Megos always looks like he finds himself so light. He almost floats up half the time.

Anyone know how long this took him? Quickest ascent of a 9b+?

Yes. 15 days I think.

 

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