Future of climbing

From the diary of Petr Pavlíček

11th of June 2011 - Shortly after midnight I reached the Hanshelleren, (better known as the Flatanger cave) for the first time. I believe, that the future of the hardcore climbing will be soon written right in this amazing area at the coast of western Norway. Definitively last shots for the long lasting movie project about Adam O. were done here (the Wizard´s apprentice movie), which will give a glimpse of what is going to happen "soon"...
It was a honor and pleasure for me to climb a few of the first new easy routes there, which maybe had not been climbed yet, just bolted, as I had heard from the "locals"... The hard ones still wait for everybody there...
And this gigant excelent-granite cave, which makes Santa Lynia cave look like a playground for children, is not even the biggest in Norway...

One year later, filmmaker Petr returned to the cave with Adam Ondra, who established and climbed the new world´s hardest route Change 9b+ here in this cave... The whole process is capture in the big documentary movie Change - www.change-movie.com

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