Adam Ondra Climbs New 5.15a in Macedonia

Adam Ondra is currently touring Europe and visiting areas he’s rarely spent time at. So far, he’s established a number of new 5.15s.

His most recent is in Macedonia where he made the first ascent of Czech Trip 5.15a at Mavrovo, which is a variation finish to Macedonian Trip 5.14d.

Ondra found a crucial knee-bar halfway up that let him shake out his pump for the difficult upper crux.

After making the first ascent of @kbecan25 's project, Macedonian Trip 9a, I bolted considerably harder exit, making a 50m long king line. Yesterday, on my first serious try after a day of bolting and cleaning, I made the first ascent of Czech Trip 9a+ (hard). Pic by @bernardo_gimenez @montura_official @mytendon @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @gardatrentino

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Ondra worked on his new route for a few days and said before his send, “It was quite a bit of work and effort to bolt and clean a new line, but it is all ready and it seems like a new exciting line is on the horizon.”

A few weeks ago, Ondra made the first ascent of High Line 5.15a/b, the hardest route in Bosnia.

A few days ago, on our last day in Bosnia, I completed the first ascent of High Line, 9a+ hard (or 9a+/b). One of my best first ascents ever. Lower part is slightly overhanging featuring big moves on pockets, the crux is in the middle where wall turns into vertical (pictured), and then neverending technical difficuties all the way to the anchor in vertical or slightly slabby wall. Took me 2 days of bolting and two days of trying the route. Pic by the master @bernardo_gimenez @montura_official @mytendon @lasportivagram @blackdiamond

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