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So he did. Hard life when 9a, 8c and 8b in a day is old news.
 
remus said:
Word on the street is that Megos did Ondra's Los Revolucionarios, 9a on Kalymnos second go some times last week. Apparently he then warmed down with a handful of stuff in the 8b-8c range, but that's old hat.

source: friend who was at the crag with him.

I was at the crag with him that day too. He had done Los Revolucionarios 2nd go before. He was just repeating it for fun. I have to say I was pretty much overawed with how easily he walked up it as a repeat. He'd put the clips in the day before. On the day he just did it. I didn't particularly notice him warming up even. He made a small noise like he was trying a bit once. People stopped watching him as he made it look so trivial. Also crushed the 8c+ next to it (Gora Gora Gutarak I think) in similarly casual fashion the next day. Just looked so easy for him, way way below his limit.

I didn't see but he also did an 8a in his flipflops as a random challenge!
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BMMipfgjdEC/
He's done the Trainspotting project at Gothenburg, 8B+ apparently, seems pretty mild for something well known and amazing looking.
 
tomtom said:
Surprise entry to Battle of Britain?

Should have picked some lottery numbers too...

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

Nice photobomb by Dobbin there... :)
 
jwi said:
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?
 
teapot said:
jwi said:
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
 
finbarrr said:
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.
 
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!
 
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
 
http://www.climbing.co.za/2017/08/alexander-megos-sends-a-life-in-the-orange-at-boven/

SA sends. Superbowl is such a great piece of rock.
 


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