It was called Chantier.
Plus, is that model still at Bendcrete?
I've fallen to sleep a number of times on the terrace under that wall, and listened to Anthoine talk about the possible lines so you'll have to forgive me.
I used to sleep under it Ben Moon's model of the route in the Bendcrete workshop, watching Paul Ingham's black and white telly.
It would be the finest part of the entire crag (if you can climb at that level, obviously).
but do people have the same attachments and appreciation of history to these places as i had to Buoux in the 80s and 90s and Doylo obviously has for the ormes, or is it just the soleless persuit of numbers it appears.
Quote from: mrjonathanr on April 13, 2011, 01:45:52 pm I've fallen to sleep .. under that wallQuote from: grimer on April 13, 2011, 10:17:41 amI used to sleep .. in the Bendcrete workshop I think you've lived a nicer life than me.
I've fallen to sleep .. under that wall
I used to sleep .. in the Bendcrete workshop
When he was 14 and just started climbing he used to work for a cake delivery company. Sell-by dates had just been invented - this was great for Andy: all out-of-date cakes came his way! Perhaps that explains his legendary stamina or possibly it's all those hours he spent on the brick-edges of the original Prestatyn Climbing Wall in the late 1970s?Andy's first two real rock climbs were with myself on a school trip to Craig y Forwyn on 20th June 1978. He seconded Y Chimney H.V. Diff and a pleasant Severe called Softly, Softly. A few weeks later he was taking leader falls on Scalar VS!In April 1981 Andy P joined a strong team for a trip to Buoux and the Verdon Gorge. There will be a star prize for the blog reader who can identify all the climbers (some well known, some well weak) in the group photo which was taken by Pete Bailey!Great routes were climbed on that trip, but not without incident: ask Pete Bailey to recount his tale of the Verdon Gorge Luna Bong abseil, where they discovered that the rope Chris Lyon had sold Andy as a 150 feet length turned out to be only 40 metres, or around 130 feet. Pete arrived in space 3 metres out from and 3 metres above the first abseil tree, 250 metres minimum above the deck, to find that only one of the ropes reached (no knots in the ends). Andy was perched in the tree:"How did you get there?" Pete enquired. "I jumped" said Andy!Witnesses still have a clear vision of Pete and Andy's shrunken faces sporting manic protruding eyes as they rolled into camp late evening after an ascent of the 320 metre off-width Voie Ula on a very hot day with a very small water-bottle.These were some of the experiences that formed Andy's early years and gave him the confidence and vision to realise that routes such as Mayfair could go free and that Chain Gang could be climbed as a trad E5 up an unlikely looking wall on a bitter November day in 1982.Andy Pollitt is a true, talented and very special Ormesman!!