[haydn jones]

 

[nbonnett]

Good effort

[Duncan campbell]

Brilliant news this!

[TobyD]

Awesome. Great when hard UK stuff gets done.

[danm]

Where there's a Quill, there's a way.

Best of all, he did it without using his patented hungover weightloss strategy, which has to add at least a grade?

[Coops_13]

Matty Hong, fight or flight 9b https://instagram.com/p/BiSZ_xngvXm/ hilarious Instagram story of Anna’s watching the celebratory drink of champagne from his climbing shoe 

[DAVETHOMAS90]

Great to hear about Ry's ascent. Fantastic news.   

[remus]

Barefoot charles has done Duel in font, presumably barefoot.

[Danny]

Maybe I'm crossing the event horizon of curmudgeondom, but that insta post/hyperbolic word salad was too much for me.

Barefoot on Duel though. OMG OMG SIIIIIICK.

[Fiend]

There were words in-between all the smileys and hash-tags?!

[Teaboy]

A regular trope of UKC forums is that 'there are loads of of people repeating hard routes but you just never hear about them/don't know who they are' but no name has ever been put forward that I hadn't already heard of...until today. This guy is British (according to 8a.nu) but even if not his ascents are significant enough to appear here, surprised they haven't been (apologies if they have but nothing in the search function):

https://27crags.com/climbers/tobysaxton/ascents

For those that don't want to click through 3rd ascent of Finnish Line plus two other 8C 

[ferret]

Wow big numbers, never heard of him but I bet he couldn't climb Indian Face

[jwi]

Finnish Line is likely a very hard boulderproblem. Video, or it didn't happen.

[cheque]

I’ve heard of him. I won’t be the only UKB poster who knows his UK-resident brother, Loz.

[jwi]

Barefoot charles has done Duel in font, presumably barefoot.

Certainly barefoot.

https://planetgrimpe.com/2018/05/charles-albert-coche-la-dalle-de-bleau-duel-pieds-nus/

[shark]

I’ve heard of him. I won’t be the only UKB poster who knows his UK-resident brother, Loz.

Chris says hi 

[cheque]

I’ve heard of him. I won’t be the only UKB poster who knows his UK-resident brother, Loz.

Chris says hi 

 

[SA Chris]

Robbie Savage has repeated (second ascent?) of Endless Flight Direct, plus a load of other stuff I’m Northumberland

[gme]

3rd ascent. It was done by someone else recently.
The other stuff he has done get ascents more regularly but not written up.
I think there is only one more major Earl addition needing repeating.

[mark20]

Some good pics on his instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BiY8pqSAhzV/?taken-by=robbiephillips_

[Ged]

Jumbo Love for Jonathan Siegrist

[Drew]

Robbie Savage has repeated (second ascent?) of Endless Flight Direct, plus a load of other stuff I’m Northumberland

He's also done The Dark Side

[SA Chris]

Great. He's been close.

[mark20]

Brilliant, is that the 2nd ascent? Looks great https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi4kbk-DTb3/?hl=en&taken-by=francocookson

[abarro81]

Brilliant, is that the 2nd ascent? Looks great https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi4kbk-DTb3/?hl=en&taken-by=francocookson

https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2011/12/dan_varian_ground-ups_e9_7b_-_the_dark_side-65648


On the Siegrist front, Jumbo looks like basically the best sport route in the world! Cool it's got done again.