In reply to humptydumpty:
Googled for a source and found this on reddit from a year ago:
> "Minutes later [James Lucas] stopped jumaring to hear Brett explain the earlier rockfall on Kevin's speakerphone. A climber had purposely smashed the summit bolts on the Dawn Wall. He'd also cut the hanging fixed rope. The chopped end of the rope had wrapped around a giant flake below the summit. Brett had tried to jumar to the top on a second set of lines, but stopped when he saw the chopped rope. Erik Sloan, the Dawn Wall's head rigger, had rapped down to rescue him off the wall. When they tugged on the severed line to free it, the huge rock dislodged and cartwheeled down the wall.
> "It went by two feet from my head," Brett said. This was the worst incident in a series of of El Capitan sabotages aimed at various climbers during the Fall/Winter season. Someone had cut the fixed lines on the East Ledges, stranding a photographer on the top until morning. Stashed water had been dumped and a note saying "F*ck you" was left on the top of the Salathe headwall, meant for a sponsored team attempting an El Cap/Half Dome free link-up.
> This occurred during the final redpoint push, when Tommy and Kevin were only 5-6 pitches from the top."
Crazy if true! Also I agree, I don't know why Ondra can't pay someone to replace the bolts and go for the flash himself.
According to his 8a-scorecard, Adam Ondra has repeated Alex Megos' Geocache, 9a+. at the Vogelherdgrotte in the Frankenjura. It's a rather short route of around 15m with a strange crux.
