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Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 01:39:54 pm
Ellis Butler Barker has climbed one of the longstanding projects left of Tuppence at Anstey's Cove, saying there is a harder, right hand variant still to go. Apparently this involves crux moves of 8A/+. I know this was tried by Ken Palmer and Rob Sutton and probably others over the years, great to see if finally climbed.  :2thumbsup: :bounce:

For more details see his 8a scorecard.

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#1 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 01:47:07 pm
For more details see his 8a scorecard.

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Longstanding left streak project finally went! I went straight up into the block of La Creme, a harder right variation is yet to go. Spent a lot of time on this last year after I did Brian but couldn't even hold the holds, after a lot of training over the past few months I was back and it went fairly quickly. Something like an 8A/+ boulder in the middle of the wall!

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#2 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 02:46:36 pm
Geddon!!

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#3 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 03:22:55 pm
Nice one Ellis, not knowing Ansteys very well is there a pic/vid of the line?

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#4 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 03:27:26 pm
Nice one Ellis, not knowing Ansteys very well is there a pic/vid of the line?

 :worms:

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#5 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 04:00:24 pm
Well yeah I'd hope it's on film for more positive reasons too

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#6 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 06:09:29 pm
Nice one Ellis, not knowing Ansteys very well is there a pic/vid of the line?

I have taken a pic of my old Dorset rockfax to show the line of Iridescence. It is the left hand red, dotted arrow labelled 'P' (for project) on the topo going going up the grey streak to the left of Postman Pat (route 8 on the topo). I hope this dropbox link works.

www.dropbox.com/home?preview=IMG_1918.JPG

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#7 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 24, 2016, 06:37:06 pm
Ted shows us conclusive proof right there

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#8 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 25, 2016, 07:57:26 am
Nice one Ellis, not knowing Ansteys very well is there a pic/vid of the line?

I have taken a pic of my old Dorset rockfax to show the line of Iridescence. It is the left hand red, dotted arrow labelled 'P' (for project) on the topo going going up the grey streak to the left of Postman Pat (route 8 on the topo). I hope this dropbox link works.

www.dropbox.com/home?preview=IMG_1918.JPG

Hasn't worked for me but thanks Ted, appreciate the effort

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#9 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 25, 2016, 08:13:21 am
Didn't work for me either, just took me to my own dropbox.

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#10 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 25, 2016, 04:06:15 pm
more info about the route on UKC

http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=70290

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#11 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 25, 2016, 04:17:29 pm
In the dark!

Here's proof of Ellis sending:


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#12 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 25, 2016, 04:57:31 pm
It seems worth emphasising, he did come third at BUCS last weekend (also mentioned on the UKC report). The full results are available here http://bucs.org.uk/page.asp?section=6584&sectionTitle=Championships

He's not weak.

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#13 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 25, 2016, 06:07:57 pm
Didn't work for me either, just took me to my own dropbox.

I have uploaded it to Imgur this time, here is the topo. (I deleted the http:// before the dropbox link like I do to embed youtube videos on here, maybe that's where it went wrong but I digress)

http://i.imgur.com/IIGYODl.jpg

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#14 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 12:15:57 am
I have uploaded it to Imgur this time, here is the topo. (I deleted the http:// before the dropbox link like I do to embed youtube videos on here, maybe that's where it went wrong but I digress)

http://i.imgur.com/IIGYODl.jpg

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#15 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 08:38:35 am
Nice one Slackers cheers, gradually learning the art of embedding!  :)

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#16 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 09:07:40 am
He's not weak.

I don't think anyone is saying he is?

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#17 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 10:12:38 am
Good bit of blank  rock that! Nice one.

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#18 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 10:19:29 am
After everything else that has been written in the past few weeks you really would have thought he would have gone out of his way to ensure there was some evidence this time around.

I know it's sad that it has come to that and there is no doubt that he is strong but surely if you were putting up routes at the higher end where people do care and there was doubts over your validity this was a perfect opportunity to get it on film and make a big statement to the doubters.

However we get the "it was done in the dark" story which will just add fuel to the fire and give the doubters (of which I am 1) even more fuel to throw on the fire.

This makes me even more doubtful if I'm honest and feel he's missed a real opportunity!

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#19 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 11:10:41 am
Wonder who the belayer was?

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#20 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 11:39:37 am
Wonder who the belayer was?

A chap called Dom Taylor. It says so in his logbook.

Didn't the Brian doubts persist because he was belayed by his ex? Despite climbing 8a herself (according to her UKC logbook) she was probably busy applying make-up or shopping for shoes on her smartphone (they can multitask can't they, eh? eh?) whilst belaying, thus making her confirmation invalid.
Now that Ellis has been belayed by a male then I'm sure this can all be put safely to bed.

Unless of course this is all a conspiracy and there is a secret society of yoofs in the south west who are in it together to falsify ascents of hard routes. Because that is the only realistic explanation isn't it?

:slap:

But also, if Ellis gives even a single crap about whether people believe him or not, then how can he possibly have done this and not got even the worst quality phone footage of something, anything happening at the crag?

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« Last Edit: February 26, 2016, 11:56:03 am by Will Hunt »

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#21 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 11:45:27 am
Wonder who the belayer was?

One of Dai's entourage apparently

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#22 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 01:20:42 pm
For the record, I witnessed Ellis do the first ascent of Chimera 8b+ at Anstey's on 7 June 2014 which links fishermans tale into tuppence. This was a stepping stone on the way to doing Brian the following April

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#23 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 01:22:42 pm
From UKC

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UKC contacted the belayer, Dom Taylor. He responded as follows:
"Yes I can vouch for Ellis's ascent. He spent Tuesday afternoon working the route but the ascent was done in the dark. We did look at filming for all the reasons mentioned but nothing was showing up on the camera.
Hope this helps,
Dom."

Ellis if you're reading this get over to Blackers Hole and do Bob's route!

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#24 Re: Iridescence 8c
February 26, 2016, 01:46:07 pm

Ellis if you're reading this get over to Blackers Hole and do Bob's route!

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