They’ve spent a week on the wall and now it’s time to celebrate. And then tidy up the wall.

At 3:30 PM local time Czech climber Adam Ondra and his companion Pavel Blazek finished climbing one of the most difficult multi pitch routes in the world.

How did he like it? And why does he still think he can´t use his feet and legs properly while climbing?

eMontana is here with the first original interview with Adam Ondra.

TOMMY’S CHALK

Why did you make the ascent one day longer – did you like being in the wall that much?

It was due to the weather forecast which ended up being quite wrong. According to the forecast we had it should have been raining all day yesterday but in fact there were just two or three drops. We could have stood on the top twice. Our damned shittyness made us return to the portaledge while it was a beautiful day.

What was the weather like on the last day?

Well, there was a shower at night and the day was quite foggy – alpine weather. Some pitches were pretty wet but climbing was possible so we took it. The most difficult pitch of the last day (5.13a, 7c+) was on the slab which gets dry immediately after rain. And as far as I can judge it was not even 5.13. I reckon there were worse pitches in the end – for instance the open corner 5.12b (7b+, note) which doesn´t ever get wet, luckily. It is hidden in such an overhang and you must climb inside it. There was even some magnesium chalk on it which indicated no rain for a long time. I climbed past some two year old magnesium left over after Tommy had conquered it. (laughs)

How did you feel about the conditions you had for climbing?

They were quite bad on the first day, I guess. We started climbing at 3 AM and didn´t finish until 9 AM but it was warm and humid. The second day was better and since then I think our conditions have been quite acceptable. The fourth and fifth days were rather good but the sun was shining, which means that you have about 90 minutes of shade in the evening or you can climb when it gets dark. It is logically a bit harder because you must climb with a head torch and at the same time the wind does not usually blow and it gets a bit more humid. The sixth day was the first day of overcast and the wind blew almost constantly during the day. These were the conditions which couldn´t compare to the beginning. Though the skin on my fingers was really devastated from the 14th and 15th pitches the good conditions made up for it. The pitches which I had considered rather unpleasant before, I could get through now. It was pretty freezing on the belay stations but you can cope with it.