With the warm up out of the way, Adam Ondra turned his attentions to more long term challenges on his current road trip to Spain.
Over the weekend he did the FA of Obrint el sistema (5.15a) in Santa Ana which is an extension to Dani Andrada’s extension of a Victor Fernandez route called Obrint Pas. Ondra’s extension, which adds physical moves to Andrada’s 5.14c version of the line, took him just 5 tries over 2 days to complete.
More about the ascent (in Spanish) and a nice gallery of pictures can be found here.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaZs14D6F0&w=540]
In other news from Spain, Daila Ojeda reports on her blog that she sent Paper Mullat (5.14a/b) in Oliana. Chuck Fryberger was on the scene so to speak to capture footage for his upcoming flim entitled, well, The Scene.
Daila Ojeda on Paper Mullat
Not to fall into the sensationalist pattern of 8a.nu, but how many times has a 9a+ been climbed in 5 tries? What makes it even more impressive is that, according to Desnivel, it was raining on saturday when he did the first 3 tries and on his 4th attempt he fell in the easier final section… Crazy.
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Completely irrelevant, but that’s the third time this week i’ve seen a video of someone sending something something from-another-planet hard wearing one slipper and one lace-up.
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Maybe you should try it some time?? 🙂
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Here is a video of him on the route:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaZs14D6F0&feature=player_embedded
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Cool, thanks!
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Was it just me or did Ondra’s classic screech sound more manly in this video? Well done, Sir. Well done!
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14c>what constitutes 15a? V11?V12?V13?
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