Yannick Flohé scores one of the hardest routes in the Franconian Jura with Janus on Angerstein. He suggests upgrading the line, which Alex Megos originally rated 9a, to 9a+.
Yannick Flohe is the second climber to successfully climb the Frankenjura test piece Janus to repeat. Alex Megos first climbed the route free in 2014. After that, the route, which is one of the most difficult in the Franconian Jura, was not climbed for ten years. It was only in May of this year that Moritz Welt managed the first repeat.
Upgrading this route definitely makes sense to me, considering that most of the 9a's in the Franconian Jura are much easier.
Yannick Flohe
Janus's appreciation was on the horizon
While Megos rated the 15-meter-long, very finger-heavy and extremely tough climb on the Angerstein as 9a, Moritz Welt suggested a slight correction to 9a/+ after his redpoint ascent.
Yannick Flohé is now taking the same approach after his third ascent of the route. In his opinion, an upgrade to 9a+ would even make sense, especially since most 9a routes in the Franconian Jura are significantly easier.
Only in April this year Yannick Flohé repeated another test piece in the Franconian Jura with Lazarus (9a+) and at the same time his hardest sport climbing route to dateHe only needed a handful of sessions to climb the line set up by Markus Bock.
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Credits: Cover picture Yannick Flohe