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"I kind of know how to climb"
Adam Ondra, in an interview with Evening Sends:
For me, however, it takes less time to adapt [to bouldering] because I have climbed many kilometers of rock in my life—on all kinds rock and different angles. I don’t want to boast, but I think I kind of know how to climb.
Anywhere, anything.
Understatement of the year? Good interview.
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I wonder if Ondra would be stymied by Indian Creek's splitters in the same way that Alex Megos was?
I bet he'd epic on a couple for the first two or three days, then figure it out pretty darn quick and start crushing. And it'd be pretty rad to watch. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it though. All the canyons are just big amphitheaters and you can hear echoes all the way down them.
Dunno, but I found the sandstone cracks in Teplice/Adrspach the Czech republic much harder than those in Indian creek (and quite scary as well).
There's a new video about the Wideboys climbing there and they pretty much say the same thing,
And boy, was I happy that they retro-upgraded Hlaska to 5.12+. That thing was fierce.
Didn't he do some multipitch trad stuff in Madagascar?
multipitch yes, trad no.