“I Had To Become Invisible.” Hamish McArthur Makes First Repeat of ‘Megatron’ (V17)

On April 20, English climber and Olympian Hamish McArthur made the first repeat of Shawn Raboutou’s Megatron (V17), one of the world’s hardest boulders. Megatron adds about half-a-dozen moves of V15/16 into the stand-start Tron (V14) in Colorado’s Eldorado Canyon State Park.

Megatron is the latest success in a meteoric rise for the 23-year-old McArthur, who until recently was almost exclusively known as a competition climber. He has ticked just one V15 (The Singularity) and one V16 (Big Z), and put both boulders down in the last year.