Type: | Sport, 45 ft (14 m) |
FA: | Wolfgang Güllich, 14 Sept. 1991 |
Page Views: | 12,985 total · 77/month |
Shared By: | Shawn Heath on Jun 10, 2011 · Updates |
Admins: | Shawn Heath |
Description
Of course, I haven't actually done this route, but I wanted to add it since it's one of the most famous rock climbs in the world. Now you can see exactly how to find it, should you come visit the Frankenjura.
This route was the world's first internationally recognized 9a (5.14d/UIAA 11). It was put up by Wolfgang Güllich who trained specifically for this climb by inventing the campus board and doing one finger one arm pull-ups. Dave Graham, the fourth person to climb Action Direct, was the first who didn't train like this for this climb.
Here's the list of people who have redpointed this brutal route (from Wikipedia):
1. Wolfgang Güllich, Germany, 14.09.1991
2. Alexander Adler, Germany, 09.09.1995
3. Iker Pou, Spain, 07.06.2000
4. Dave Graham, USA, 21.05.2001
5. Christian Bindhammer, Germany, 14.05.2003
X. Richard Simpson, Great Britain, 13.10.2005 (Simpson claimed to have sent this but this now appears to be a lie)
6. Dai Koyamada, Japan, 16?.10.2005
7. Markus Bock, Germany, 22.10.2005
8. Kilian Fischhuber, Austria, 25.09.2006
9. Adam Ondra, Czech Republic, 19.05.2008
10. Patxi Usobiaga Lakunza, Spain, 24.10.2008
11. Gabriele Moroni, Italy, 17.04.2010
12. Jan Hojer, Germany, 22.05.2010
13. Adam Pustelnik, Poland, 10.10.2010
14. Felix Knaub, Germany, 22.10.2011
15. Rustam Gelmanov, Russia, 26?.03.2012
16. Alexander Megos, Germany, 03.05.2014
17. Felix Neumärker, Germany, 16.05.2015
18. Julius Westphal, Germany, 25.06.2015
19. Stefano Carnati, Italy, 14.06.2016
20. David Firnenburg, Germany, 29.10.2016
21. Stephan Vogt, Germany, 04.04.2017
22. Simon Lorenzi, Belgium, 15.04.2017
23. Said Belhaj, Sweden, 27.10.2018
24. Stefan Scarperi, Italy, 2.11.2018
25. Adrian Chiamala, Poland, 5.5.2019
26. Mélissa Le Nevé, France, 21.05.2020 (First Female Ascent)
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