Alex Megos

A German sport climber, Alex Megos established himself early as a benchmark athlete—he was the first person to onsight a 9a (5.14d)—and has balanced rapid ascent lines with prolonged projects. The two Patagonia films in this catalog frame that tension: one explores what happens when a prodigious mover faces routes that refuse to fall quickly, the other chronicles the long, exacting project that became Bibliographie.

Rotpunkt follows Megos from Germany to Siurana and centers on his repeated encounters with Estado Crítico, a route that stops quick success and forces him to confront patience and failure. The film’s strongest material is its attention to what persistent projecting does to a climber’s process: failures, mentorship, and the decisions that make a route worth continuing to try. Rotpunkt: Bibliographie then compresses sixty days of sustained effort at Céüse into a focused portrait of projection work on Bibliographie—presented in the film as a 9c—showing skin management, linking sequences and the grinding arithmetic of a multi‑week project.

Viewed together, these films teach a viewer how elite sport climbers move between speed and projection: the athletic headspace for onsighting, the technical patience of skin and hold economy, and the social context—coaches, friends and film crews—that shapes how a major project gets documented. They are as much about how a climber learns to fail and adjust as they are about the final ascents.