[Serpico]

Oh hang on I heard she used her knee, not impressed now.

I blame Seb and Hard Grit™.

[cheque]

Awesome. 2nd British women to climb 8b+ 

First one to do it Britain?!

 

Quite a neat connection between her name and the name of the route, too.

[Robsons]

So impressive!!!

[nik at work]

Superb!

[Yoof]

Amazing effort on an amazing route! Well done!

Quite a neat connection between her name and the name of the route, too.

With that in mind, she should really go for Hajj or Kaabah rather than the standard extension!

[Palomides]

That's very impressive, especially from someone who (from outside the scene) is usually portrayed as being focused on bouldering.

I probably shouldn't ask this, but is this the first female ascent of Mecca? I don't remember hearing about any others, what with the pool of women who climb 8b+ AND who are likely to be at Raven Tor for more than about 5 seconds being pretty small.

[monkey boy]

That's very impressive, especially from someone who (from outside the scene) is usually portrayed as being focused on bouldering.

I probably shouldn't ask this, but is this the first female ascent of Mecca? I don't remember hearing about any others, what with the pool of women who climb 8b+ AND who are likely to be at Raven Tor for more than about 5 seconds being pretty small.

It is the first female ascent of Mecca!

[petejh]

Chris Webb Parsons flashed crushed The Brute, at The Diamond today - doing it without any warm up. Another level of strength and fitness - like watching formula one versus british touring cars! Amazingly it's the first 8b flash in Wales according to Pete and Doylo.

He then went on to almost FA the 'Waiting Game into the diagonal crack' project, falling off the second-last move. Even with a t-shirt stuffed in the wet hold this looks absolutely brilliant and a sure-fire three star classic 8b+ in the making.

[El Mocho]

Brilliant, thank God someone pulled him off before he did the extension...

[abarro81]

I see from his scorecard that he did staminaband - pump up the power recently too. Beast.

[r-man]

I see from his scorecard that he did staminaband - pump up the power recently too. Beast.

No, it was powerband into pump up the power. Still not shabby though!

[Andrew B]

As abarro81 says, if you look at his scorecard...

[abarro81]

SB/PUTP was 2 days ago according to the log. He logged it as a route grade (8c+)

P.s. That soundtrack on the vid is hideous   

[petejh]

Stump up the Power?

[r-man]

Ah, I didn't look his routes scorecard. Good stuff.

[SA Chris]

someone pulled him off before he did the extension...

I can imagine that would break your concentration.

[slackline]

I suspect there may be something to add to this in a few days, but from beastmakers twitter account....

Witnessed the most stoically impressive climb of my life so far yesterday, caff crushed the crux pitch of the long hope route 3rd attempt

It was more the fact the winds were gusting upto 50mph and it was raining when he lead it which blew me away. Not big wall connys!

[Wood FT]

animal

[tim palmer]

Witnessed the most stoically impressive climb of my life so far yesterday, caff crushed the crux pitch of the long hope route 3rd attempt

I know the format of twitter predisposes to nonsensical sentences but that sentence reads like a nonsense poem.  what does "stoically impressive" mean?

[slackline]

Perhaps it was missing some punctuation...

"stoically, impressive"

....would then mean he climbed without fuss and it was impressive to witness.

[Wood FT]

  at a guess the translation would be "humbling piece of climbing", as a poem I think it would be quite nice, the alliteration of the second line is well bo.

[willackers]

Amazing effort!

I hope he pays Dumby a visit.

2nd ascent of Achemine, on-sight of Requiem?

[tim palmer]

Perhaps it was missing some punctuation...

"stoically, impressive"

....would then mean he climbed without fuss and it was impressive to witness.

well I get the overall sense of the sentence of course but i think even with a comma it is still gobbledygook.  I know it is petty, sorry

[tomtom]

Witnessed the most stoically impressive climb of my life so far yesterday, caff crushed the crux pitch of the long hope route 3rd attempt

I know the format of twitter predisposes to nonsensical sentences but that sentence reads like a nonsense poem.  what does "stoically impressive" mean?

Perhaps it was missing some punctuation...

"stoically, impressive"

....would then mean he climbed without fuss and it was impressive to witness.

well I get the overall sense of the sentence of course but i think even with a comma it is still gobbledygook.  I know it is pretty, sorry

Good grief... your post was pretty good gobbledygook!

So, is a nonsense poem a new genre like Haiku? Or does a double nonsensing mean it makes sense?

Blimey. NonceSense I recon....



Well done beasts

[andy_e]

The sentence wasn't runcible enough for him.