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Adam Ondra has made the first ascent of Queen Line, hard 9b, at Arco in northern Italy. That's not all though. Afterwards he went on to make the 3rd ascent of Stefano Ghisolfi's Ultimatum, 9a+, at Massone.

A new king line is born. Well, it is not king line, it is Queen Line. Incredible and super...

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In reply to UKC News:

Well, that was a spectacularly crap bit of film!

In reply to UKC News:

He repeated Lapsus today too. I think that just leaves him 2 9b's in Europe left to do: Neanderthal and El Bonne Combat.

In reply to stp:
Does Akira count as a 9b? Still unrepeated afaik

In reply to Xavierpercy:

dont think the holds are still there

In reply to jon:

Agreed, it wasn't the best. Was the camera person up a tree initially?!

What was also of interest to me to was the statement: "Adam's and Patxi Usobiaga's attempts will be live streamed on Black Diamon's facebook page Sunday 23 April 18.00 CET." That could be good!

In reply to Xavierpercy:


I'd love for someone to get on this and prove it either way. As this article says, it's not like Rouhling was a crap climber:- http://www.climbing.com/people/fred-rouhling/

In reply to Fraser:


... and looking the other way...?

In reply to jon:

aaaah, people can be so picky.

In reply to Toerag:

Interesting article, thanks for that.

In reply to Xavierpercy:


Good point. I suppose the grade is unconfirmed in the sense that even Rouhling had nothing else to compare it with. Also the route is manufactured to fit Rouhling's size and ability. And maybe it wouldn't even be considered a route today as it's pretty low and might be protected by bouldering mats rather than climbed with a rope. So it's a bit of an odd one.

There are also hybrid boulder routes in Spain that I didn't count either.

In reply to stp:

There is also Meiose (9b) in Charmey/Switzerland, opened by Pirmin Bertle and not repeated so far.