This trad climb just got a lot harder

[@CalebJHills]

I love seeing Tor in videos! More collabs with both of you? I'd love to get some of his insights on sport/trad routes!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

I’ll work on doing more videos with Tor!

[@Climbing3D]

Fighting rock, fighting wasps - amazing skills and adventure. Thanks for the nice video and I'm waiting for more

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😁

[@pdebra6542]

Great to see Tor making an appearance here! Such elegant climbing too!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you!

[@andrei2]

I would shit my pants instantly and fall. Congrats on being made out of steel inside and outside! Great route!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Haha, thanks 😄

[@metoo-k6l]

You cruised up that. Looking forward to seeing you in the UK on some Grit trad with Pete 💪

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😁

[@Tarabulus]

That's a gnarly sting :O Never not amazed by your strength and grace on a wall. Inspiring and humbling to watch. Mostly humbling :D

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😊 yeah the sting was pretty bad haha

[@Divig]

I really like to watch these kinds of videos and not just indoor gym things. Go nature.

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thanks! I agree. They are harder to make compared to indoor videos though. And you never really know what’s going to happen (climbing into a hornets nest for example 😅)

[@Divig]

@@MatildaSoderlund suggest a route upgrade? 😉 "usually 8a, with hornets 9a")

[@MatildaSoderlund]

@@Divighaha yes definitely

[@AnnaNibbs]

Awesome send, Matilda, and so badass to have kept your composure after being stung - I know firsthand how painful it is! 🤯 Fantastic video - your climbing is a beautiful thing to watch. 🙌🏻🌟

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you so much! 🤗

[@MusclesfromB]

Matilda you are so cool, love your enthousiasm for climbing. Great job on the send!

[@M0uho]

Awesome stuff. Keeping it together while dealing with the wasps! Good stuff. Tack so mycket.

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Tack 😄

[@CrispyCrimpsClimbing]

Only a true legend gets stung and keep on going! Epic send Matilda, congrats 🥳

[@MatildaSoderlund]

haha! thank you!

[@DBez-ty8yt]

Awesomeness Matilda! Good going on the trad psyche!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😄

[@martinsonnekus-williams5437]

Amazing climbing, well done for the ascent despite the sting! Looking forward to seeing future videos!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😁

[@rowanstalnaker5275]

so inspiring Matilda! love watching your trad climbing journey :)

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you!

[@JJCarper]

You are something else !! To just crack on with all them wasp flying around you then to be stung! I would of been back flipping off that wall ! Hahaha

[@MatildaSoderlund]

thank you so much!

[@joshuadonovan3812]

Riktigt starkt ! Kul att se snabba progressionen! Fortsätt så 🙌

[@danielgawin1701]

Get stung by wasp, still sends it. Crazy 💪💪💪💪

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Epic send 😎

[@balaenopteramusculus]

Super cool video. Congrats on the climb! ❤

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😁

[@mayiko_001]

Well done Matilda!!! You are an amazing climber! Gratz!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 🙏😁

[@heighRick]

Sees Matilda being attacked by hornets ...hopes Matilda and everyone is alright! Someone please hold my tea; and thank you, I've got a video to watch 🙂 brb

[@heighRick]

Amazing effort Matilda, thanks, helps a lot! ...and ouch, what a mean hornet 😮

[@MatildaSoderlund]

@@heighRickthank you 😊 tbh it was so painful and I couldn’t sleep that night because of the pain lol

[@robertcreer8826]

Looking forward to more videos

[@Juliaaa05k]

Love it, great send! 🤩

[@MatildaSoderlund]

thank you

[@sportenapfeltorten2095]

That looked GNARLY Also pretty runout. I think it should get an W-adjusted grade for how hard it is with wasps on the route :)

[@dereksmalls7808]

I got stung in the flippin' ear while leading yesterday!! You handled it a lot better than I did hahah

[@MatildaSoderlund]

omg, hope you're ok! the bites are so painful

[@kanebuckthorpe1]

@STORROR could learn from this 😅. Great video, loving the content!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😄

[@n3v3r1s4]

smart wasps, went straight for the shoulder 🤣

[@betwixt3193]

Great vid Matilda!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thanks 😊

[@Answer404]

Thank you for the video!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

😁

[@simonrobbins815]

Great trad video. Must be so much more work that shooting videos at the gym and difficult to do well. Nicely done.

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you! Yes it definitely is, and they usually don’t get as many views as the indoor climbing vids 😅

[@maikburbach1348]

Great send. I sh*t my pants just from thinking about trad climbing 😂 and i would've definitly take a fall because of the wasps. I'm so afraid of them 🙈

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you! Yeah trad climbing is a different game. Combine it with wasps and it’s super duper scary 😅

[@andersfugelli2764]

Great send, Matilda!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you 😊

[@JKSMari]

Great video!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you!

[@waspol13]

Tor should have a helmet! Rocks can break off 😮 Stay safe out there everyone

[@rhettetherington1351]

Brilliant Matilda!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Thank you! 😁

[@extremechimpout]

Bra jobbat Matilda! Du är så jävla cool 😎

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Tack 😁

[@JanNowak-ss1fq]

Great climbing! Such an accomplishment, congratulations 🤜🤛 Sorry about the sing🤗

[@MatildaSoderlund]

@@JanNowak-ss1fq thank you 😁 it was actually super painful so I could barely sleep that night, but nothing serious

[@durabelle]

Wasps seem to be the theme of the week, but I have to say that you took the sting a lot more gracefully than the Storror boys in their latest video 👌🐝

[@AnnaNibbs]

I was just thinking the same thing! Full-blown drama with Max and Josh! 😖🐝😅 But at least Matilda didn't get any wasps stuck in her clothing - that *really* might have led to a whipper... 😬🤯

[@AnnaNibbs]

Tbh my reaction would probably have been more like Josh's! 😂

[@durabelle]

@@AnnaNibbs Yay, the Storror army really is everywhere 😄 And I might have freaked out too after being stung, so all respect for Matilda!

[@AnnaNibbs]

@@durabelle big up the Storror army! 🙌

[@MatildaSoderlund]

hi Storror army 😄 I need to check out their video!

[@pierrehecker7198]

The wasps makes this 8a+

[@pontusolssonPrivat]

Matilda du är så cool, keep climbing!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Tack! 😁

[@mystishio]

Pretty sure I would fall off even the easiest route when faced with wasps, but that was impressive as always! 😁

[@MatildaSoderlund]

So sketchy 😬 thank you 😁

[@captaincrush8133]

Matilda just built different. I'd have been off that wall at the first sign of bees or wasps.

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Haha, thanks 🤗

[@kfolkes12]

you are amazing!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

thank you :)

[@lemmingsoutside]

So good! Maybe try Cobra Crack in Squamish at some point? 🤩

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Ah maybe! I definitely want to go to Squamish 😁

[@lemmingsoutside]

@@MatildaSoderlund and dream catcher 🤩

[@solomonreinman7452]

I thought "Attacked by Hornets While Trad Climbing" was the name of the route until I watched the video

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Haha, I wish it was just the name of the route

[@solomonreinman7452]

@@MatildaSoderlund Yeah that looks super painful. Great job keeping your composure! Maybe the name of your next FA?

[@cragexplorers7355]

Bra jobbat! 💪

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Tack 😊

[@carljohantihkan2035]

Just said to my friend I'm overjoyed that this summer had no wasps (in Stockholm archipelago) 0! It appears they all went to Matilda 😅 But what a beast to tank it!! I'm thinking +1 grade for each wasp sounds fair?🤔

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Haha! Bålgetingar nowhere to be seen in Stockholm, they've all migrated to a hidden crag in Bohuslän 😅 Thank you! Haha yes sounds fair 😆

[@Juliaaa05k]

😮🎉❤

[@StefanKolmodin]

Got attacked by a whole swarm while projecting a bolder standing om a high ladder, some 30 stungs but made it home safely 🙂

[@MatildaSoderlund]

damn, hope you were ok! sounds crazy

[@StefanKolmodin]

@@MatildaSoderlund jumped down from the ladder ok and run, took some cortison and slept for a day and ok 🙂

[@trautsj]

Most people: Yea that climb is mega hard Matilda: Yea, but what if we added wasps? lol Surely that bumps it a couple grades right?

[@MatildaSoderlund]

haha, definitely added some extra spice

[@DunklerVater]

wtf i cant believe you kept climbing. i wouldve taken out a knife, cut the rope and then jump straight down instead of finishing the climb LOL. But congrats on the send!

[@MatildaSoderlund]

haha, there wasn't really any option to "take" because I didn't really trust that placement 😅 thank you!

[@thom-novi]

8A+wasp. New grading variation?

[@MatildaSoderlund]

haha yes, and one variation if you get stung or not

[@paulmitchell5349]

Trad is way better than bolted.

[@greghooley6333]

8A+??? Thats at least 8Bee. There needs to be footnotes for the grade when there's wildlife. Like when people use a kneepad. "Did you send?" "Yeah." "Were you attacked by anything? Wasps? Birds?" "Uhh, no." "What? Cmon, you have to do it again. But first, let me cover you in honey and raw meat..."

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Hahahaha. 8Bee is genius 😂

[@sportenapfeltorten2095]

Did he just say 8a+ sport is not that hard??? 8a+ is REALLY hard. I would think like a singular percent of climbers can do 8a+

[@vicgonco]

Isn't "crux" meant to be the hardest part? How can you have THREE of those? I'm just amazed at how controlled and purposeful every move is in these hard routes, even with wasps stinging ;-) Keep loving the content of the channel, we just need more of it 😇

[@MatildaSoderlund]

Crux is generally referred to as a section that is harder than the rest of the climbing, sometimes there's only one, sometimes there's more - especially if it's a longer route :) Thank you so much, it means a lot to hear!

[@cruxboi]

First!

[@EpifanoEntertainment]

Why always comparing to and bashing limestone sport climbing? 😂 call it 8b if it's harder than 8a+, don't diminish other people achievements 😂

[@MatildaSoderlund]

It was not intended to diminish anyone or their achievements, more to state that Bohuslän trad is its own thing, difficult to compare to other types of climbing :)

[@EpifanoEntertainment]

Thanks for the reply but "WAY harder than ANY 8a+ sport route you find on limestone" sounds like he is comparing actually! Statements like these for some people can ruin a great video about a great ascent 😂

[@fuuzball]

@@EpifanoEntertainment well, it is way harder though, there`s no denying that...

[@EpifanoEntertainment]

​@@fuuzballbased on what?

[@fuuzball]

@@EpifanoEntertainment based on the fact that placing small gear precisely and safe, while keeping a cool head on slick fingery granite demands way more effort than your regular overhanging limestone 8b...