New 9b by Alex Megos, one of his 'most successful trips so far'
After three weeks in Margalef, Alex Megos has shared the news of what he described as 'one of my best and most successful trips so far', and it's impressive reading.
© Ken Etzel
After the Meiringen bouldering World Cup in mid April, Alex drove straight to Margalef where he "wanted to try some projects".
He worked the old Chris Sharma project together with Sharma himself and Stefano Ghisolfi, who also ended up belaying him on the send go.
On Instagram, Alex says that he is
"...incredibly relieved. This has been an important process in my climbing career and clipping the anchor of "Perfecto Mundo", my first 9b+ as well as getting the FA was an incredible experience.
Thank you to @chris_sharma for bolting this thing and the good sessions over the last couple of weeks and big thanks to my good friend @steghiso for belaying me on the send, for being a big source of motivation and a great inspiration to me."
Comments
Awesome :)
Cool. Not surprised that Megos got it first. Presumably the fastest ascent of a route of that grade? It doesn't sound like he found it too hard. Part of Sharma's comment was: "Now you have to go find something that’s actually hard for you."
Video of an attempt: https://youtu.be/DXnJo_BaZ-s
Best with the sound off, otherwise 'Allez. Allez. ALLEZ! Allez. allez. aaa-lllez! allez. Allez. Alleeez! Allez. Allez. ALLEZ!' etc Time he changed his name to Allez Megos
Bit strange, an American and an Italian shouting French at a German in Spain?
May be it is, because Alex is half greek - You have considered this aspect?