surely giggling crack has to be up there too...?
Surely, one of the problems with grading cracks is the size of your fingers/hand relative to the crack. Am thinking of Lynn Hill on The Nose and Beth Rodden on The Optimist- is it not true that cos they have teeny lasses' hands and fingers they can utilise the small cracks much more effectively.
Quote from: shurt on January 20, 2009, 10:46:30 amsurely giggling crack has to be up there too...?I seriously doubt that the hardest crack in the UK is an offwidth. I should add that I haven't tried giggling crack yet, at this point. But we (ie brits) are essentially shite at them, and i don't think (again, this is currently specualtion since i haven't tried it yet) that Jardine's original grade for Ray's Roof was taking the piss that much.
How many good quality pure crack climbs that are unclimbed are there in England?
I imagine the standard of crack climbing has gone up very little in Britain in the last 30 years or so. Remember, Joe Brown basically soloed Right Eliminate, as, I imagine, did most of those who repeated it, until the chock was inserted. Steve Bancroft said that when he was young, Goliath was no big deal, just the next one up from doing The Rasp. There really haven't been all that many pure cracks added in recent decades, has there?
while crack climbing is often very much in the arms,
There really haven't been all that many pure cracks added in recent decades, has there?
Its a strange place for a pirate to end up, thats for sure.