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Emotional Landscapes 8C Hard / V15 flash ⚡ ✅
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Just surreal to flash this ultra classic by Klem Loskot from 2002. This is probably my proudest flash of a boulderproblem. Thanks to @JakobSchubertClimbing and Mischa Piccolruaz for sharing the beta with me ✌ I would not have even tried without you! I made a videocall Jakob just before giving a try and then executed just perfectly. Check the whole story about the day in my new article on the website, and Emotional Landscapes should not have been the goal of the day. I still tried Bügeleisen sit before. And warmed up by flashing Air 8B and warmed down by flashing Wrestling with Aligator 8B.
Besides, I am excited to share the new video, which includes all flashes of 8C's (Lions' Share, Celestite, and Emotional Landscapes) this season and some almost-flashes. Pure climbing video with a lot of trying hard and a lot of emotion! Make sure you watch it ✊
Ethical intermezzo ⏬
I was always thinking that for a proper flash try on a boulder, you are allowed to touch holds as high as you can reach, but you can't stack multiple pads or climb a ladder to touch the holds higher up. But this approach comes with some problems that some holds are reachable if you are tall, while some short climbers can't reach them. And is one pad OK to reach the holds? How thick a pad? And this approach would inevitably lead to only trying lowballs, where you can easily touch all the holds from the ground ✊
So my perception shifted as I also knew that the other 8C's flash was done with the help of a ladder or stacking pads to touch some of the holds. So I adopted this style too. For Deep Fake, Celestite or Lion's Share or Emotional Landscapes, it does not really change very much, as the majority of the holds can be easily reached from the ground. Bügeleisen or Unison are a different story, though, and in these problems it would make a huge difference if you adopted a no ladder approach. It might still make sense to go for the pure flash without touching any holds higher than stand-start holds if you want to keep your ethical standards extremely pure. But I decided to go for a ladder-flash ascent ☝
EDIT:
I just talked to Jules Marchaland and he told me that he did Power Of Now Direct without touching anything else than start holds. Which makes his ascent much more impressive! I feel like for lowballs, it doesn't make much sense with no pre-touching flashes, but for standstarts and highball boulders, it makes sense to define no-ladder or ladder flash ascent. What do you think?
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Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
00:33 - Brione, Switzerland
01:38 - Flash Food 8B/ V13 Flash ⚡
02:16 - Deep Fake 8C+/ V15 Flash Try
05:00 - Next day, February 25
07:06 - Lion's Share 8C/ V15 Flash ⚡
11:07 - Celestite 8C/ V15 Flash ⚡, Val Bavona, Switzerland
13:20 - Back in Brione, March 6
14:30 - Unison 8C/ V15 Flash Try
17:00 - Maybe the next winter, but...
17:40 - Maltatal, Austria, March 11
18:00 - Emotional Landscapes 8C/ V15 flash ⚡
19:28 - Adam Ondra describes his last 2 weeks
20:05 - Outro
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Thumbnail picture by: Martin Švec
STORY BY
ADAM ONDRA
VIDEO BY
MARTIN ŠVEC
CAMERA
MARTIN ŠVEC
JANA ŠVECOVÁ - @JaneSvecova
GIULIANO CAMERONI
ZAN LOVENJAK SUDAR
NIKOLAJ NOVAK
SPECIAL THANKS TO
CLÉMENT LECHAPTOIS
DAVE GRAHAM
GIULIANO CAMERONI
JAKOB SCHUBERT - @JakobSchubertClimbing
JULES MARCHALAND
MICHAEL PICCOLRUAZ
NIKOLAJ NOVAK
PIETRO VIDI
SAM WEIR
ZAN LOVENJAK SUDAR
and others...!
PRODUCTION
JAN VERNER
JAKUB PÍNA
KATEŘINA KUŘÁTKOVÁ
SUBTITLES BY
JARKA MARČEKOVÁ
© ADAM ONDRA 2026
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