Adam is a professional rock climber from the Czech Republic and one of the best climbers in the world. He started climbing at about the same time he learned to walk and has not stopped since. He on-sighted his first 7b+ at 8, at age 13 he climbed his first 9a. He won his first lead Climbing World Cup and ended up second in lead Climbing World Championships when he was 16. He has won 3 gold medals at World Championships since. In 2012 he climbed Change, the first route to receive a proposed grade of 9b+. Altogether Adam has redpointed three routes at this grade. In 2016, Adam repeated the legendary Dawn Wall in a very short time of 8 days. So far, Adam has climbed thousands of routes, 140 at the grade of 9a and higher and he just finished his project in Norway of the world’s first 9c.

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