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Recently, Adam Ondra became the second ever to onsight a 9a. The route was La Cabane au Canada at Rawyl, Switzerland.
I had a chat with him at the trade show at Friedrichshafen, and it was very obvious he was really happy to finally have reached his goal of...

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In reply to UKC News:

"Studying economy" ??

In reply to UKC News:

'This one, even though low-end 9a, I could say with all my honesty that it could be 9a. (that does NOT mean that it is definitely not 8c+, who knows?'

I would suspect you do as well as anyone Adam!

In reply to Dennis999:

I'm sure this is a translation / language thing and he is going to study Economics.

In reply to UKC News:

You can see where he's coming from though, it's hard to grade something that you onsight/flash, especially if you get the sequences perfect first try.

Amazing effort, such an inspirational climber.

In reply to Dennis999:

Hmmmm what could it possibly mean i wonder?

In reply to UKC News:

It's not a quote from Ondra though, its just a correction that needs to be made in the article

In reply to Morgan Woods:

It means he wants to make a lot of money.

In reply to UKC News: I too warm up on routes harder than 8a sometimes... not. Absolutely ridiculous!