Hansjörg Auer free solos Mephisto on Sass de la Crusc in the

"What I do know," says Auer "is that for me personally this route marks a very important step, because I always thought I’d stopped free soloing for good. The right moment never came again and so I believed it was all over. Instead, it arrived. And once again it was brilliant. Emotions are really personal and difficult to describe, but as always I had that feeling of being completely alone, of being utterly weightless, of being absolutely focussed. Soloing a route in the mountains, where I know I cannot allow myself to make even the slightest mistake, is one of the most intense feelings climbing gives me."