{"id":905911,"date":"2026-09-22T23:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905911\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:44:09","slug":"hamish-mcarthurs-uncut-send-of-megatron-v17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/905911\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamish McArthur’s Uncut Send of Megatron V17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamish McArthur made the second ascent of Megatron V17 (9A) in Colorado\u2019s Eldorado Canyon back in April 2025. A video of his ascent was released a couple of months later \u2013 it was described on Mellow\u2019s YouTube<\/a> channel as a \u201cvisual collaboration [that allows] Hamish to take the viewer into an incredibly personal space exploring his mental process and his ideas around awareness.\u201d McArthur has now also just released the uncut footage of his send.<\/p>\n

Megatron was the second established V17 in the United States, the first being Woods\u2019 Return of the Sleepwalker in Red Rock, Nevada. Shawn Raboutou made the first ascent in 2022. With his first ascent, Raboutou became the first climber in the world to send (and FA) two V17 boulders. The line is an extended, harder version of Daniel Woods\u2019 Tron V14, which he established in 2017.<\/p>\n

American climber Drew Ruana put over 100 sessions of work into Megatron, but has not yet sent it. Ruana described<\/a> the V17 as follows: \u201cTo me it breaks down into [an eight-move] V15\/16 that\u2019s on nasty crimps and underclings that feel like they\u2019re gonna rip your pulley. There\u2019s one right-hand throw move to where the [V14] starts that\u2019s one of the hardest moves I\u2019ve ever done and you basically have to climb V13\/14 into a hard V12+ single move. Then do a bunch of foot moves and weird cut to establish on the [V14]. From there, the [V14] stand is guarding the top \u2013 you\u2019ve already done a fucked up hard boulder (took me more days to link the sit than any other V15 and most V16s have taken me) into a nasty series undercling thrutches with bad feet. The [V14] is wireable but having the energy to own those underclings at the end of basically climbing V17 is hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Megatron has only seen two repeats so far. While Raboutou made the FA in 2022, the boulder remained unrepeated until McArthur\u2019s second ascent in April 2025. It took McArthur five sessions. One year later, in April 2026, Zach Galla made the third ascent.<\/p>\n

McArthur is one of the best boulderers in the world. He has two V17\u2019s to his resume: Megatron and Nathaniel Coleman\u2019s No One Mourns the Wicked at Thunder Ridge in Colorado. He has also topped at least two V16s: Big Z in California (another Raboutou FA) and Flower of Sulphur, a new line he established in May this year in Squamish, which has yet to be repeated. Other hard ascents of his include Fool Me Once V14, Backside Blowout V14 (FA), and Sword in the Stone V14, The Singularity V15, and Se7en V14\/15, all of which are located in Squamish.<\/p>\n

Hamish McArthur\u2019s Uncut Footage of His Send of Megatron V17<\/p>\n

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