#199 Elias Iagnemma — The World's Hardest Boulder, Proposing A New Grade, and What Comes After Sending V18?

The Testpiece Podcast

The Testpiece Podcast
#199 Elias Iagnemma — The World's Hardest Boulder, Proposing A New Grade, and What Comes After Sending V18?
Sep 28, 2026 Episode 231 The Testpiece Podcast

Last November, after four years of projecting, Elias Iagnemma sent Exodia, and proposed the world’s first ever V18/9A+. The boulder has remained somewhat mysterious since then, with limited footage of it and little information on who has been trying it.

Today, in Elias’s first English podcast appearance, he answers all the questions about Exodia that the climbing world has been asking for the past year.

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- Sending every MoonBoard benchmark

- Elias’s approach to learning new movements and refining beta

- The importance of the name, “Exodia”



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