In reply to The way this thread is heading:
Drawing any comparison between what Magnus and Alex did here, and solos on gritstone crags, or short U.K. trad routes is a bit of a stretch.
A 12m route, where maybe only the last half presents a risk of serious injury, the last quarter of which presents an small chance of death (if you’re unlucky) in which you you spend just a few minutes (if that) making half a dozen moves or so really doesn’t compare to what these guys did here.
They spent an hour and a half climbing this, outside of the fist few minutes they were looking at certain death the whole time and made hundreds of moves in this state.
To top all that, Magnus hadn’t even seen the route before he did this, let alone climbed it. How many grit routes get soloed on those terms?
I’m in no way denigrating what people have soloed in the U.K., and by all means a conversation about how people are risk averse these days is totally valid. But start another thread, this thread is about what MM achieved with AH’s help. An achievement I doubt any of us have or will ever come close to, let alone be up for after a text message conversation the previous night!