Flashing 5.12+ can be hard. It takes patience and you gotta get lucky. I've climbed with 5.15a climbers who try hard to do 5.12d first go. However, in the past two weeks alone, Alex Megos has flashed ...

German climber Alex Megos is perhaps best known for putting down one of the hardest routes in the world, Bibliographie (initially thought to be 5.15d, a grade climbed only once before, but eventually ...

We teamed up with Alex Megos to explore the biggest climbing gym on the planet. Endless routes, top-tier training setups, and ...

Megos: The first part is 5.14d in my eyes, [yet] depending on who you ask, people might also say 5.15a--but I think this route suits my style very well. It's quite a powerful 5.14d, I would say, power ...

Alex Megoshas a climbing skill set unlike any other climber. Regardless of the climb's degree of difficulty, he appears to scale vertical rock faces with such ease it's mystifying. So when the German ...

World-class athletes, like gymnasts or figure skaters, may strive for '10s ', but if you're a climber like Alex Megos, you're aiming for... 9s. Why a buck short? In climbing, a route rated 9 is as ...

On 9 October 2022 German climber Alexander Megos made the first ascent of Full Journey (9b) at Margalef in Spain. The line was bolted by local British powerhouse Tom Bolger who in April 2022 climbed a ...

At Céüse in France Alexander Megos has made the first ascent of Ratstaman Vibrations, a project bolted by Chris Sharma over a decade ago. The German climber believes the climb checks in the 9b grade ...

Last month, Mat Wright established Black Thistle, a runout and technical E10 7A (5.14- R/X) at Glen Nevis, in the U.K. It was his second FA of the grade this year, after climbing Magical Thinking at ...