Huber madness...

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...not exactly bouldering, but good old Alex Huber has just soloed "Der Opportunist" at a pretty hefty 8b.....

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He crazy.
 
I wonder what the hardest route anyones ever soloed is?

I know Marc le Menestrel soloed Revelations at 8a+, Alain Robert is supposed to have done 8b in bare feet as a solo, Dave Thomas soloed flaming drambuie at e6 6b.

I soloed e2 5b, the dateline, Pexhill when I was 16. I am sooooo awesome.
 
Dobbin said:
Dave Thomas soloed flaming drambuie at e6 6b

Yeah man, I watched that ascent ... and very scary it was too. Dave nearly came a cropper soloing an E4 on the Sanctuary Wall a while afterwards when he came across wet/loose holds - not good when it's too steep for a rope to get to you. Not to mention his solos of Lord of the Flies and Caveman at Berry Head with a new finish thrown in.

Dunno what the hardest solo is - anyone know? If there's those who can onsight 8b+, you'd think someone would have soloed one....
 
I soloed dateline too when I was 16. Soloed Black Magic the same day. Bo selecta.
Dobbin-you ever soloed the Knife? It's fookin amazing...ly scary. I reckon that makes Huber look like a nancy.
 
I have the powerrrrrr

I've onsight soloed 8b. :shock:

No. Really. It was an 8b roof at Las Canadas, Tenerife.

Actually, it felt a bit easy for the grade.
Actually, it might have been a typo. :?
 
Stu, in this pic you look like some sort of pervy gynecologist going in a scary Jeremy Irons in Dead Ringers stylee, armed to the teeth with nasty metal implements:

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Isn't that Huber's warm-up route though?

When Mark Leach soloed Sean's Roof it was still given 8c.
 
I once soloed Fear Of Faust on Lundy, which i recon is about the same angle as that Huber route.
 
Hardest solos I've heard of were back in the early '90s when Alain Robert and Jean-Christophe Normand both soloed proper, big 8bs. Which I reckon makes them the first E10, possibly even E11, ascents.

I think the route Robert did barefoot was Cauchemar d'Elephant at Buoux, 8a.

After his 8b solo, Normand decided to train hard and solo the 8c at his local crag. He trained so hard and dieted so extremely that his liver failed and the doctors told him there was nothing they could do and he would be dead within 6 months. He wrote a very moving letter to Vertical saying goodbye to the climbing community. At the time he could barely get out of bed. He went on to make a complete recovery and has since climbed Font 8b.
 
mark said:
He trained so hard and dieted so extremely that his liver failed and the doctors told him there was nothing they could do and he would be dead within 6 months

OMG :shock:

That's madder than Ian Vincent's old dieting regime, and that was scary!
 
Scouse D said:
Dobbin-you ever soloed the Knife? It's fookin amazing...ly scary. I reckon that makes Huber look like a nancy.

Is that the hanging arete thing to the left? H.A.R.D.C.O.R.E! I can see how that might be scary yes, and effort for Black Magic - quality route.

If Huber or Fred Nicole came to Pexhill (the North West's premier forcing ground) some 65 year old grandad with saggy grey pants would burn their asses like you've never seen! :twisted:
 
Bubba said:
That's madder than Ian Vincent's old dieting regime, and that was scary!

Skinny Vinny! what a character! couldn't mix to save his life but dope tunage!
 
He used to play so hard the dancefloor would regularly flee for the safety of the bar!!!

He did get a lot better it must be said, and at least it kept his mind off his crazed training/dieting madness....
 
A better pic:

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Apparantly Spaniard Dani Andrada has soloed "Archipel" at Charent at 8c+ (though he downgraded it to 8c), but this is another "Sean's Roof" type thing:

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Bon effort that man, the crux looks frighteningly slopey and slappy for a solo...

E11?? :wink:

Video is gash tho, hardly captures the movements well and too short :(
 

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