18 April 2017

Adam Ondra opens Arco's first 9b and repeats a 9a+

Adam Ondra has opened Arco's first 9b by doing the FA of Queen Line located in an ex-dry tooling crag with two more projects. "17 moves of super hard intense pinching, crimping and drop-knees, into an easier finish. Quite hard 9b for sure, but probably only the harder finish breaks into 9b+. 4 days of work this trip, a few goes three yrs ago. Stefano Ghisolfi is working a 9a+ and comments. (c) Matteo Pavana "At the half of the wall of Queen line there is a small rest and then right after an easy top out. If you go straight after the rest it adds an 8c and that is the King line." Directly afterwards, Adam moved to Masone where he repeated Ghisolfi's 100 moves 9a+ Ultimatum. "Icing on the cake after Queen Line." Read more on Ondra's Instagram with 100 000 followers. In total, Adam has now done 17 routes 9b or harder which can be compared with the runner up, Chris Sharma, who has done eight. Then there are three guys who have done two: Stefano Ghisolfi, Jakob Schubert and Alex Megos.
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