3x 8C Flash in 2 Weeks

A pure bouldering video, and one of the best on the site because it refuses to be anything else. Adam Ondra flashes three 8C boulders in Switzerland inside a fortnight: Lions' Share at Brione, Celestite in Val Bavona, and Emotional Landscapes, the Klem Loskot line from 2002 that he calls his proudest flash.

This is for climbers who care about flash ethics and the strange psychology of one honest attempt. Ondra is open that beta came by video call from Jakob Schubert and Mischa Piccolruaz, and that he wore two kneepads on Celestite to match Dave Graham's approach. The film includes the near misses. Skip it if you need an arc. Trying very hard is the whole plot.

What works is the argument. Ondra uses the video to say what counts as touching holds before you pull on, and it is a real position, not a disclaimer. The calm before each attempt, walking up to a problem he has never touched, is the best footage of him I have seen. What it leaves out is the problems themselves. Celestite's knee bars and Lions' Share's compression start deserve more time than they get.

The Lappnor Project is the counterweight: Nalle Hukkataival spending years on one boulder. Ondra spends one attempt on each of three. Watch them together and you have the two ends of what bouldering is.