Tom Randall Establishes World’s Hardest Offwidth—Under a Concrete Bridge

British crack specialist Tom Randall has come out of “offwidth retirement” to smash the hardest wide line of his career (and perhaps the hardest in the world).

Autobahn, a horizontal crack running for 200 feet on the underside of a north Berlin bridge, was an exercise in pain tolerance and endurance as much as a feat of athleticism. “It’s a hard mental zone to get into,” Randall told Climbing. “As much as climbing is often fun, being on this route was not enjoyable. Initially, I wasn’t...