Ondra repeats PuntX, 9a or 9a+

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28 October 2008

This Sunday, Adam Ondra made the 3rd ascent, after Alex Chabot and Andreas Bindhammer, of PuntX, 9a or 9a+, at Deverse, Gorges du Loup. Phil Maurel reports: "After 2 days and half in July, I received an sms from Adam, Saturday evening, telling me that he will be there from Sunday until next Friday... And Sunday evening, he sent me another one to tell me that it was done... ! This guy goes too fast... " The route is about 20 meters of stamina and boulder problems without any good rest! Recently German Andreas Bindhammer made the 2nd ascent, thinking it is at least 9a+
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