The 3rd ascent of one of Northumberland's most physically demanding climbs, after a 25 year wait! It's quite remarkable that this was climbed in 1994. It is steep, on very poor holds and very 'basic' in style, meaning you have to be really athletically strong to do it. In my eyes this is on a par with Birkett's effort on If Six Was Nine for ground-breaking difficulty of moves on a Trad line in the early '90s. Some of the UK's (and world's) best climbers have tried and failed on this over the last few years (even Dan looked like he had to try!), which is pretty bonkers when you consider how easy most moves on Trad routes generally become when you chuck a rope down them.
I think we've become used to expecting the super-human from Dan, but he is (I think) just flesh and bone like the rest of us. So to take something on like this, having had only a couple of sessions on it and get up it with such class and commitment is top notch stuff. He must have nearly ticked the crag now..
Dan reckons it's not a route because you don't get pumped and proposed the grade of font 7c+. If you were to use the tech grade sensibly, It seemed to me (disclaimer: I couldn't do one of the moves) that it would slot in well at E8 7b. Certainly whoever proposed 6c has a little too much ego.
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