Hollow Mountain Cave brushing

[@aries_9130]

2:44 Thor from EKB would be jealous of that stellar brushing technique.

[@TreeChap]

The real definition of “leave it better than you found it!”

[@DB-ez9ud]

Thanks for sharing this Alex. The bans extending across the Grampians and nearby Arapiles has been a devastating for Australian climbers. There is no precedent around the world for such a widespread ban of an established region of high quality climbing (thousands of routes over hundreds of crags), encompassing trad, sport and boulders.

[@matthewontherocks]

Love this kind of video Alex, would love more little stories

[@johnmcmillen4540]

me too!

[@85timng]

I've been climbing at the Grampians for close to 10 years. It has been an absolute blow to us aussie climbers. Watching this is quite sad, to think we're no longer able to climb here in the foreseeable future. Thanks for all your support Alex and bringing this to attention.

[@epincion]

Thanks for this video, it will take sensible informed leadership by climbing gods like yourself to ensure ongoing access to many great areas.

[@davehughes7332]

Thanks for this Alex - both for leaving the cave better than you found it, and clear evidence that international tourists not only came to the Grampians for climbing, but respected the place.

[@jetjaxon]

Thanks for cleaning up the cave. A posotive example of climbers looking after the places we climb at! The cave is unfortuantely not on the list for potential future reopening in the finalised Grampians plan, but so long as the rock still exists, we will keep plugging awwy, trying to find a solution that lamd managers and Traditional Owners are comfortable with for us to return to climbing in the cave.

[@tiuclaudio]

You´ve just earned a bunch of respect points from me, more than any hard send you are used to do regularly. Thanks for using your visibility to demonstrate that sometimes we gotta spend a fraction of our "climbing time" trying to keep our sacred areas clean (and hopefully open to the community!). 🙏

[@Naafun]

Thanks for sharing Alex! A great service, both the brushing and the posting 😁👍

[@masonmoen2712]

Loving this type of content. The whole up close and personal aspect of the video is really enjoyable. Hope to see more videos like this to come 👍👍

[@rj5249]

Awesome! I always get the feeling when I get to a boulder and see chalk all over it. I know that that's what the sport entails, but damn... people need to brush afterwards! Leave nothing but footsteps, take nothing but photographs!

[@jacobsack]

do you reckon they had committees 30,000 years ago telling cavemen not to graffiti on the rocks, yet 30,000 years later they're history. for all you know, in 5,000 years those hikers names and dates could have been a tourist attraction. Megos took down future history!!!!!!!!!!

[@colehibbard2851]

Really? I love seeing chalk on a boulder, within reason. Makes it just look like a classic

[@samuelchow6474]

For a second I thought you were filling the bottles up to drink them haha... Great video, thanks for sharing this story. Also love the example you're setting.

[@fanaticclimbing]

Inspiring action, Alex, respect and thank you. The climbing here is so magic, hope the situation will change

[@aidanloeser4890]

Thanks, Alex. More stories!

[@davidjames9664]

Thanks Alex for sharing this video.

[@billiethomas9732]

Thank you!! Imy a little late to the party with this video, however as a VIC climber wanted to share my appreciation! Legend 🙂

[@hooger1313]

What an effort, guys! I use to brush moss quite a lot at our local crag (making new FA), but this is a completely different level, maybe even dimension... 😁

[@dodynos]

Thanks Alex, this type of video means a lot.

[@marinakyriacou6525]

I love climbing and would absolutely love to climb in the Grampians, the routes look stunning and the ban must really suck for local climbers. But I also get that it's important to protect Aboriginal art and sites of archeological significance. Hopefully a work around solution can be found. Maybe one where climbers can work with indigenous people and help them protect these sites so that graffiti like that and other damage left by hikers and day walkers (no shade but its almost always them lol) can be avoided.

[@arthurstrubbeslabdabclimbi6086]

Perfect video, love it

[@garethrpratt]

More please!

[@sholtomcneilage]

Us Australians can be a bit idiotic at times! You see a lot of this sort of thing. Thanks for setting a great example and being a fantastic human.

[@GB-lb6ej]

граффити углём это очень экологично)

[@alexchurch7642]

Mr Megos, do you plan to climb at the ifsc World Cup in Salt Lake? Probably going to be watching it in person and would be thrilled to watch you!

[@dabu7689]

plot twist: these were actually ancient cave paintings

[@einsamerwilson]

Alex Megos - the next curling brusher

[@deathmetalhablo]

Nice action! :) Greetings from Frankenjura!

[@bertiegleave7226]

I like the gaston brushing technique haha

[@maxfarr4142]

This closure is devastating for Australians and all climbers alike.

[@ColumbusBean]

des sind jetzt die Profi Aufnahmen :D

[@Pennaflumen]

This was a pretty nice video, even though it's kept very casual. Good content. =)

[@TheSoteriologist]

Kurzfilmfestival für Zeitgeschichte !

[@diegoxhc]

Hi...You brushing the cave but when you climbing your chalk dirty the stone.

[@leoTrois3]

Super starke Geste!!

[@santialonsoguerro7727]

Well done¡

[@CantTalkImRiding]

Did you also clean off all the climbing chalk? If you're going to remove visible signs of humanity, would that include chalk buildup?

[@iandonnelly6684]

great warmup lol

[@WuchtaArt]

Why was it closed tho?

[@paulmitchell5349]

Are not bolts also a kind of graffiti ?

[@adrianbarreropascual]

Eres el mejor💪

[@MCMXI1]

Atta boy Alex!

[@WiskinWaffles]

Megos!!

[@elfriederich]

Kurz mal die fettesten Filmerskills rausgehauen! 😎

[@pfpc_5188]

he's better than us even in cleaning things wtf

[@thevidguy11]

Try the 9c climbing test.

[@امل-ح6ل]

Yep nice

[@MrJaneso]

Niceynice!

[@boilednuts2717]

nice

[@MyZombieCakes]

Parks Vic repaying kindness with ingratitude. Makes me happy to see people outside of the Aus climbing community caring about these ridiculous bans.

[@Ninjanilsw]

🥕🥕🥕 more Videos 🤗🥕🥕

[@duuplo]

for the algorithm ^^

[@eyaltsyrlin9812]

it will be cool if you'll start vlogging magnus mitdbo style

[@chrisharris7466]

Apples and oranges ha ha ha forget climbing you should be a comedian! Your small comments are V funny

[@walterlotte4215]

Its never a good deed unless you're filming yourself doing it. Or something like that.

[@robertoroaroa8273]

Excelente faena, borrar la estupidez de algunos que dicen llamarse escaladores.

[@pxnt4486]

to anyone that watches this in 10 years I honestly don't know why this is recommended to you

[@mikelautensack7351]

Just go rent a small battery power washer lol way faster

[@Furansowakun]

Why was it closed ?