Ondra post failure giving Manolo credit and possible upgrade

Adam Ondra reports on his Instagram. "The hardest route Manolo (Maurizio Zanolla) has done - Eternit 9a (maybe 9a+). And one of the hardest vertical face climbs in the world for sure. No success yet. " (c) Petr Pavlicek Beside climbing, Ondra has been a role model on 8a when it comes to take a stand against chipping and giving personal grades, actually since he was 14 years old. Reporting failure in order to give credit to others, he has done before, and here he is almost unique. Manolo put up Eternit in Feltrine as a 9a in 2008 when he was 51 years old. In 1990 he made the FA of Appigli Ridicoli at the same crag and graded it 8b+, nowadays some say it is 9a. If Manolo would have used the modern (Lleida) grading, he would have been much more recognized. Thanks to Ondra, this will very soon be a reality.