Adam Ondra - Working Golpe de Estado in Siurana

This is a clip of Adam Ondra attempting two F9b sport routes in Spain.

One is an unclimbed project and the other is Golpe de Estado, a Chris Sharma route.

The footage is taken from a forthcoming movie about the young Czech climbing phenomenon.



24 Jan, 2011
you gotta love his screams... ;]
24 Jan, 2011
Inspirational as ever.
26 Jan, 2011
Icredible, yes, but I'm a bit sceptical. Look at how he reacts to falling off a route he's been trying for a day, and compare it to Sharma falling off the same move 50 times in a row. Seems he's not very good at tackling defeat, I wonder how long it's gonna take before that catches up with him and he hits a (proverbial) wall.
26 Jan, 2011
Wonderful post, full of moronic assumptions. Idiot! Over on the 8a.nu thread Petr Pavlicek, who made the video, has responded to similar comments from 'contributors' who have no idea. Here is some of his post. "OMG... so much hate of Adam only because of his screaming, here and even somewhere else... I am not his speaker, but I made this video and I feel I must say somthing to it. I do not get it. So many people like it, the effort, the heart he gives in it. Without that it is impossible to make such routes. It is not anger! Of course you can not know the consequences while watching such short video previews.. But you immediately put him in to a box... If you were trying a route really hard, if you were going to school, had very limited time, and the route would be more than 2000km away, you would not put all your power and emotions into making it? This was his 26th try, it was terribly cold and very windy, no one climbed in the whole crag!! Just Adam, really wanting to make the route so bad. Even if it was -2 and strong wind, he made the long morpho crux for the first time. But fell with totally frozen hands in easy ending for 7C. After one month of waiting for the weather and luck, after 6000km of driving (we started filming in February, 2 weeks, than he had to go to school and we returned in March, but it started to snow like hell and Adam had no free space/term the whole year 2010 - all the next possible terms booked). It was really desperate fight, full of emotions, all this Golpe quest... The conditions were really terrible, during both trips... We all admired his fighting it again and again, it was no fun. It was a nightmare for him. Also the fact that we were going with him and filming 2 x across half of the Europe, it was also kind of pressure for him I think."
26 Jan, 2011
Most people get annoyed on something when they know they can do it. If he was just calmly falling off and laughing and joking, I don't think he'd be in the right mindset to tick something at his very limit (ie 9b).
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