Is this the longest boulder in the world?

Soon I'll be going to Flatanger, the cave that hosts a chunk of the world's hardest routes, such as Silence (9c/5.15d) and B.I.G (9c/5.15d). In today's video I train in preparation for a trip to Flatanger using a gigantic playground.

Coordinates to the staircase: 59.293177, 18.056768

Huge thank you to @EricKarlsson for joining me on this session and Cordelia for filming!

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FIlmed by Cordelia Mangia Jansson
Edited by Emil Abrahamsson

[EmilAbrahamsson]

I’ve made it to Flatanger already, and believe it or not but this was actually the perfect training for it. I think if I trained to climb this a few times per day for a few weeks it would be great preparation for the climbing here, as it’s around the same length. A lot of the holds are a little bit better on the routes, but you have difficult boulders in between everything, so with good endurance on jugs you can manage to recover for the hard boulders. Keep your eyes peeled for future videos from the gorgeous cave! 👀

[alexk]

looks like the woman at 17:55 has found a different beta

[ayuminor]

"Local man takes wrong side of stairs, crushes it"

[donutella]

If Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall can use a cellar in Sheffield to train for Century Crack, then using a Swedish kids playground to train for Flatanger seems totally reasonable to me :)

[elremito]

Emil : "my endurance stretches to about five moves and then I’m toast"
Proceeds do a million moves on first try

[manumo]

when you actually take "the floor is lava" seriously... this is an absolutely insane achievement lol

[severin]

The people walking ontop must be confused 😂

[firebirdsreality]

Imagine just going for a stroll down those stairs but all you can hear is just Emil try hard noises from below your feet

[mounirdellagi]

I hope the architect of the staircase sees this! He did not know what a Monster he was creating! Mad respect Emil

[onesockwanderer]

This could make a great series, ‘Climb the stairs with Emil”

[Boothie]

8 minutes!!! Don’t think I could even hold your rest pose for 8 minutes. Let alone climb up a flight of stairs. Well done 👏 outstanding as always Emil

[OCubed]

That's amazing! The climb was super intense, I loved the lack of music and just listening to your breathing. Incredible video

[TIOS]

For a guy who only does boulders and has no endurance, that was outrageously impressive! For anyone at all, that was outrageously impressive!

[williamr.s.]

This is seriously one of the most impressive things I’ve seen dude. The sheer endurance to be able to hang and climb for that long!

[VJ-]

“Mommy, there was a man panting and grunting at the playground today” 😅 but seriously, hella cool and impressive!

[soothead_]

My girl friend wondering wtf I’m watching from the other room 😂

[wglao]

Awesome climb and video! I can't believe Cordi filmed the whole thing so smoothly while moving backwards and ducking railings

[Krageesh]

So nice to see pros getting humbled. Sometimes, when you guys don't struggle, I think I'll never get better. But videos like this make me root for you and hope for myself.

[AnnaNibbs]

Heh! Seeing the tram at the beginning of the video reminded me of Wide Boyz' urban crack climbing shenanigans underneath the bridges of Sheffield 😁.

Also this climb, and the quality of the video itself, was majorly impressive.

Congratulations Emil – bloody awesome stuff.

[Blindclimbing]

That feeling of being willing to give everything to continue is what makes athletes so inspiring.
Thanks for the motivation, can’t wait to hit a climb tomorrow.