One of the world’s best rock climbers walks us through the footage of his ascent of Silence, the world’s first 9c (5.15d) rock climb.
“For most of the time, I was not really trying the whole roof. All I was interested in was the crux section.” And so begins Adam Ondras’s interesting explanation of how he eventually scaled a roof so gnarly that most humans cannot even fathom climbing it.
So, if you’re interested in diving into a remarkably complex and difficult physical challenge, Ondra answers some of the most frequent questions he gets about the world’s hardest sport route: Silence.