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Jakob Schubert has made the first ascent of Project Big in Flatanger.

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Next up DNA I guess.

That’s awesome. After that really close attempt a few days ago, and then some slightly worse goes, he must have thought that might be it for this year.

Yes, hopefully he’ll get back on DNA. Though he may start to focus on the Olympics.

No, that's incorrect. He climbed Silence in 2017.

• According to Planet Mountain, he bolted it in 2013 [1].
• Adam himself even says he "kind of" did all the moves back in 2013 [2].

[1] https://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/climbing/jakob-schubert-frees-projec...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbMWyAoHMks&t=315s

That was actually a very epic watch with 2 ropes, wet holds, snapped holds and numerous missed clips / run outs. The route then seems to just end at some nominal location in the middle of nowhere. Doubt it will ever see many repeats but does look an amazing climb. 

I presume that it ends where the climbing becomes "easy", meaning really easy for those who climb 9b and above.

But I'd really like to see a decent photo topo of Flathanger that shows where all these mega-routes go - when they show the whole cave you just can't tell if it finishes only half-way up or near the top or wherever.

A great watch. The hold breaking is a real OMG moment (and how gutted would he have been to have fallen off at that point) but the corker (for me as a sloper hater) are the two moves to those slopers. How he holds them, and then moves off the first, I do not know. Guess that's the difference between a punter and a world class climber!

Jakob´s having a fantastic year. That was a great watch; no commentary, no music, just an amazing and very controlled fight leaving you perched on the edge of the sofa with sweaty hands. The rest, so to say, is silence

This vid gives a great intro to the cave -  youtube.com/watch?v=XeMYbWxg-Hw&

Worth watching the whole thing (it's only 10 mins long) or skip to 4:00ish for some brief topo info.

Yes that should've been bolted not climbed. Thanks for the correction

Yeah, Jakob half jokingly said in the interview on the live stream, that falling because of that broken hold could've ended his career.

Kinda a shame he just tossed the broken hold. It would have made a nice little memento to keep with his comp medals.

Haha, that would definetely make for nice stories when he's sitting by the stove with his grand kids.