10 September 2014

Action Directe is the climbing Dream experience

Based on some 1 000 unique votes, What would be your Dream experience?, it is interesting to see that still Wolfgang Güllich's Action Directe 9a from 1991 is #1. Out of the Top-4 Dream experiences, Adam Ondra has got them all and the runner up's have actually just one. 22 % Having done Action Directe 18 % To do an 8C+ 16 % To do a 9b+ 12 % Two week Big Wall ascent 09 % DWS Es Pontas 9b 08 % Solo climb El Capitan 04 % Winning World Championship 03 % Standing on Mount Everest 04 % Other
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