Charles Albert has climbed his project at Rocher Brûlé in Fontainebleau and given it a grade of Font 9A. French magazine Grimper broke the news in their latest issue and state that Charles named the problem No Kpote Only. This is only the second problem at the grade of 9A after Nalle Hukkataival climbed Burden of Dreams in 2016.

Charles Albert working his problem No Kpote Only (9A) © Mellow

Charles is well known for climbing without rock shoes and has climbed most of Font's hardest problems barefoot. He spent 20 sessions on No Kpote Only and believes that relative to the 8Cs he has climbed the problem must be 9A.

In the past few years, Charles has gone on a rampage in the forest. In 2016, he repeated Guillaume Glarion-Mondet's Le Pied à Coulisse (8C) at Rocher Gréau. The year after, he climbed Fontainebleau's first 8C+, an extension to his own problem La Révolutionnaire. At the end of last year, he climbed a sit start to Hypothesis at Bas Cuvier which he also graded 8C+.

Here is a video of Albert working No Kpote Only in February 2018. His attempts start at 6:35: