[Wood FT]

Big Whittaker day. Hope there's still time to see Mecca Extentsion get a female ascent.

[monkey boy]

Big Whittaker day. Hope there's still time to see Mecca Extentsion get a female ascent.

Yeah so do I!!

[Grubes]

Big Whittaker day. Hope there's still time to see Mecca Extentsion get a female ascent.

According to Neil mawson Mina did it.
https://twitter.com/ClimbingRumours/status/522056636274585600
"Got to watch Mina crush Mecca extension today at the tor. 1st woman to climb 8c on British soil! Nice 1 Mina, well impressive!"

[JC]

It was really impressive! 

Mecca Extension | 8c by Jon_Clark, on Flickr

[Jaspersharpe]

Excellent.

[Wood FT]

Well done Mina!

[Nibile]

 

[danm]

Awesome! 

[petejh]

[Doylo]

and still not been downgraded..::  effort Mina.

[cowboyhat]

Yes a great effort, I've heard its desperate.

[Stu Littlefair]

Give it time Doylo. ;-)
It is a great effort. I'm really impressed by the fact that she's come from a bouldering background and has ticked an 8c that depends critically on your recovery skills - lots of hard work went into this I'm sure!

[T_B]

Brilliant stuff.

How does it break down? 8b/+ into an 8a+ with a big rest in-between?

[cofe]

Extension is 8a+ according to McClure in his book. Good little write-up about how it all breaks down and what it takes, which I won't copy and paste here...

[Kingy]

A fantastic effort by Mina!    The top bit is 8a but used to be considered 8a+ (I have even seen it given 8b)

[shark]

Extension is 8a+ according to McClure in his book. Good little write-up about how it all breaks down and what it takes, which I won't copy and paste here...

Go on - treat it as a teaser

[haydn jones]

Yea I thought that it was no more than 8a. But its very techy and you can spoon yourself on the final run out as some muppet demonstrated on monday. Well psyched to hear mina has done it. Psyched myself now. Whats next though kabaa?

[kc]

Keith told me all about it. That sounded terrifying. Suppose you must have got the rope round the back of your leg.

[monkey boy]

[Grubes]

according to tommy on facebook pete whittaker has flashed free rider.
Is that the first time a route has been freed clean first go on el cap?

I thought the closest was leo on el nino with 1 fall on the first pitch?

[bendavison]

according to tommy on facebook pete whittaker has flashed free rider.
Is that the first time a route has been freed clean first go on el cap by a brit?

I thought the closest was leo on el nino with 1 fall on the first pitch?

I think so.

Not bad for his second big wall! I also heard that Jorgeson and Caldwell did Pete and Toms new link up first go (I'm assuming they'd done the other two routes before).

[Johnny Brown]

according to tommy on facebook pete whittaker has flashed freerider

Amazing, been on the cards for someone for a long time but incredible if this is the first.

[duncan]

I'm pretty sure this is the first proper flash. As JB says, several have come very close: Leo Holding on El Niño in 1998 and with a one fall ascent of Freerider in 2005. Uli Steck onsighted Golden Gate in 2009 having fallen off a 5.11 pitch on Salathe/Freerider (it was wet). Cederic Lachat fell on the Huber boulder problem pitch on Freerider then onsighted the Teflon corner (an alternative to the Boulder problem that many think is harder) and onsighted the rest of the route in 2009.

Clearly a pure flash was a goal when they did their Muir-El Corazon link-up, great news that it's worked for them.

The Nose free looks right up their street, all that 3D weirdness in the changing corners, or will they go for a speed ascent?

[abarro81]

Awesome! Nice one Pete

[Will Hunt]

That is so brilliant and incredibly inspiring. I love seeing somebody getting rewards like this when they've trained like a maniac. You reap what you sow. Well done, Pete.