Alex Megos makes Move his at Flatanger

Just a few days after his remarkable, 5-day repeat of Change, Germany's Alexander Megos has struck again at Flatanger with a smooth repeat of another Adam Ondra testpiece, Move. The route was established in 2013 by the Czech and was Ondra’s third 9b/+ in the Hanshelleren cave after Change, the world's first 9b+ freed in October 2012, and Iron Curtain 9b freed in August 2013. Ondra felt it warranted "hard 9b" at the time.

Megos worked the line briefly and made an extremely promising link on day 3 leading him to believe he was close to the redpoint, in the end though he kept falling off the crux close to the top and, after refining his beta, he made the 40-meter send on day 9.

Both Seb Bouin, who made the first repeat in 2019, and Megos feel the route could well be 9b/+. Both repeats, unlike the first ascent, were carried out with kneepads, making the first ascent all the more impressive. Indeed, Megos stated "Absolutely inspiring that Adam did the FA more than 10 years ago. He could have given it 9b+ without kneepads in my opinion."

 

 

 

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