Matt Segall sends Kryptonite, 9a

Matt Segal, world-class trad and big wall climber, has done Kryptonite (8c+) at The Fortress of Solitude. He first tried it in 2003 and then started working on it last year. Matt took a little time to answer a few questions we had.

So basically, you came back 19 years later and started to project Kryptonite as your first 9a at age 38? How was it to raise your bar in sport climbing like this and how did you prepare yourself?
[I] Kinda walked away from hard sport climbing when I was younger to pursue difficult trad climbing and adventure climbing… Honestly, I prepared for it by sport climbing a ton. I had a trip in the spring to Saint George and one in the summer to Céüse. Besides that, the hardest part was staying fit throughout the process and that required a lot of gym climbing.