Ascents in Austria

8b+/8c not sure.. What I'm sure is that it's one of the best Boulders I have ever done, soooo amazing!! props Flo Schmalzl for putting this one up!

Probably the happiest I've ever been after topping out a Boulder! Finally it happened. This means a lot to me! Cruising through the lower part and falling on those last 2 moves over and over again made this such a crazy mental battle. But with the right conditions, shape, skin, people around me to distract me during the failed attempts, it just had to happen. Absolute kingline! Props to Flo for establishing this beast. 5th ascent

From Dark Beauty into Nussknacker, a long one! 2nd Ascent after Christoph. Great to climb and not easy for the grade I think.

Yess!! Always wanted to do this one! So happy it went down today. Felt like the first autumn day... So beautiful!

What a strange Boulder... I guess climbing on such river polished rock is always tricky, but this one felt especially tricky. thought I had figured out how to position my body, then failed again, had to try the moves again to make my body remember the positions, then fail again, over and over... Until it pieces together and feels like a casual easy boulder. strange... What`s also funny about this Boulder is how many different betas there are now, but all are hard in their one way. you just gotta

WHAT A FIGHT! I really managed to fall off on the very last move to the lip. Unbelievable. Thankfully I did it the next try. Great powerendurance roof Boulder. Crimpy, very tensiony and some intricate beta. Love it!

My 3rd 8b+ flash, so psyched! Thanks for the beta and the motivation Michael Piccolruaz You really gotta activate the beast mode for this one, so I thought it might be good to flash, since in a flash go you always try way harder than ever

Such a sick one! Dabbed on the jummp once so got rid of the launchpad, then fell on my ass really badly but luckily send soon after haha Feels more like an 8B to me..

One day

2nd ascent after 23 year, FA Stefan Furst in 1996. It took Adam over 10 years and roughly 10 days. 1st day this year. Stefan gave it 9a, possibly something have broken, but very possibly it has not got much harder due to breaks. Adam believes it is more 9a+ now, even though the crux is very hard to grade. The difficulty is not to be underestimated as the first 8c section is suprisingly tiring and makes the crux so much harder.

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FFA.

2nd Ascent after Roland Hemetzberger. shares the crux of 'The Void' but climbs a harder start into it. Since you have such an amazing knee bar in the middle it doesn't make it much harder though, in my opinion.

Video: https://youtu.be/ukm8wVEAs5o?si=gF_TZ82JSM3Cd6rD It’s been more than five years since I first tried the route “Clash of the Titans” back home in Tirol which was first climbed by Alex Megos in 2017. Alex graded it 9a+ back then but to me it always felt substantially harder than that. I’ve done quite a few 9a+ and also 9bs but none of them took as much effort as this route. However, after I finally sent rather quickly last year I wasn’t sure anymore if it really deserves an upgrade making me hesitant to publish the ascent and have a clear opinion on the grade. After all, the route doesn’t fit my preferred style, which is crimping, but there are quite a few open handholds on this one, which gave me a hard time. Earlier this year, the opportunity came up to go back together with Stefano Ghisolfi who checked out the route as well and gave his opinion. Check out the video on my YT channel to find out more.

So cool to finally send this one, such a legendary route (FA in 1996 by Stefan Fürst) Last year one hold in the crux would just never dry up but this season it was finally all dry and I was able to do it in my 2nd try (this year).

wow!! came down so easily this time. I tried it briefly some time ago without having any chance. 20 mins this time and it was done... what a surprise!

Really wanted to flash this one. Happy everything worked out so perfectly.

Yess. Happy about this one since it's totally my anti style. Glad it went down quickly today. Should also have done Traumschiff. So close... Amazing session with Jakob, Kokoro, Keita and Tomoaki!

surprisingly cool Boulder. love those two pinches

Really nice basic power climbing.

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Flash thanks to the perfekt Beta by Chris Schweiger 🤝

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1 day in this year! what the hell is going on