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16 year old Czech climbing phenomena Adam Ondra has continued his domination of the World sport climbing scene. His recent swift repeat of Markus Bock's Frankenjura testpiece Corona (F9a+) has cemented his already firm position at the very pinnacle of the sport.

According to 8a.nu in the last year Ondra has redpointed a gargantuan 58 routes of F8c to F9a+ and onsighted 47 routes between 8b and 8c.

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In reply to UKC News: Photo looks a bit tilted.

In reply to UKC News: It's just unreal.

In reply to UKC News: get Ondra to try a bit of Trad!!!!

In reply to UKC News:
Makes me wonder what will happen when he properly sets his mind on something....
James

In reply to james oswald:


Yeah, he's never really properly set his mind on anything yet has he.

Good effort! Amazing!

In reply to UKC News:

Truly phenomenal!

In reply to UKC News: That dude needs a wedgie!

Absolutely out of this world, little cretin.

In reply to james oswald:

i take thats sarcasm?

In reply to mark s:

No - I suspect it means what will he get up when he spends 6 months on something...

In reply to mark s:
No not atall.
Has he really spent several months redpointing something.
James

In reply to UKC News:

What's he done on grit?

In reply to UKC News:

Insane achievement. Especially the read of routes for a 6 day trip in Kalymnos.
How can he do SUCH volume unless the 8as really are just warm ups for him.

Outstanding achievement and as others have said above it will be interesting to see if he applies himself over time to a cutting edge project.

In reply to Jeff25:

i would like to see him on fred rouhlings 9b AKIRA. surely the would be the biggest second ascent of any route in the world.

the grades are soft in kalymnos are they not. its still a good weeks climbing though.

In reply to DEvans:

you been there? yes it has that reputation but things have settled down a bit and they are now close to benchmark....yes you could probably knock a grade of most routes there to bring them in line with old school crags like Siurana, but they are not miles off.

interesting point about Akira....i thought it was a fairly uninspiring route being basically an extended boulder problem in a fairly grotty cave but i could be wrong....is it 100% natural? Also interesting that Hugh has had 3 repeats, so good to see people getting Fred's hard routes.

In reply to Morgan Woods: yes. intresting point about akira, have you been there? it certainly doesn't look like a big boulder problem when you are standing at the back of the cave. its a huge overhang and totaly inspiring line. there are no views over the med though.
out of the many visits to freds routes its great that a few have managed to get up hugh. but so many failures too. l'autre cote de ciel is an amazing line too.
akira i think has one hold that was saved with a bit of sika but NO chipped holds. thats why fred loved it so much.

Forget Akira, Ondra needs to get himself on Jumbo Love and Golpe D'Estado.

In reply to Strife:
boring long routes. he should get on something with a bit of history to it.
has he done action direct yet. maybe he is going to give it ago onsight one day.

In reply to DEvans:
has he done action direct yet.

Yes

In reply to james oswald:

good then he is ready for AKIRA, its like action direct but a horizontal roof and the moves are a bit harder and twice as long.

In reply to UKC News:

Are you sure about this ?

In reply to DEvans:

no not been to Eaux Claires yet.....looked at a few vids though.....the place looks nails!

In reply to Morgan Woods:

it is very hard at les eaux claires. not a good place to come and get lots of holiday ticks. good climbing though, i like the fact that you can't get up the 6bs yet you can warm up on them in kalymnos.