[teestub]

Direct finish to Saucius Digitalis at Shining Clough a few weeks ago

Dan looking well hench, I wonder what training program he has been on 🤔

[Will Hunt]

Direct finish to Saucius Digitalis at Shining Clough a few weeks ago

That looks great. How good is the gear on the green rope? And where does Saucius move onto the arete? I presume Saucius finishes on the arete as Bloodrush does, rather than climbing it on the right?

[andy popp]

It moves left at the level of the gear - you can see a good hold on the arête to aim for. I climbed the final bit on the front. Couldn't swear to it but I think the gear's good.

[SA Chris]

I like the moment of "do I bother fiddling some gear in that crack, nah, sod it, press on". Looks great

[Adam Lincoln]

I like the moment of "do I bother fiddling some gear in that crack, nah, sod it, press on". Looks great

I assumed it was an onsight!

[Wood FT]

New highball arête for the Rivelin circuit from Steve R and Mark20. The left arête of the Easy Pickings buttress.

7A+(!!) with lots of pads, or E7 6b without.



! - can fall off
!! - dodgy fall or landing
!!! - try not to fall off

[andy popp]

How did everyone miss that?

[T_B]

Especially given the 2005 guidebook says “the arête on its steep right hand side awaits a sufficiently brave and talented climber”!

Looks nice.

[highrepute]

New highball arête for the Rivelin circuit from Steve R and Mark20. The left arête of the Easy Pickings buttress.

7A+(!!) with lots of pads, or E7 6b without.



! - can fall off
!! - dodgy fall or landing
!!! - try not to fall off

Did you have a go?

[Wood FT]

New highball arête for the Rivelin circuit from Steve R and Mark20. The left arête of the Easy Pickings buttress.

7A+(!!) with lots of pads, or E7 6b without.



! - can fall off
!! - dodgy fall or landing
!!! - try not to fall off

Did you have a go?

No, should’ve done in retrospect but I’d got cold. Young Tom Appleby gave it a decent ground up go, falling off going for the seam around the arête. Straight forward fall with ~10 pads.

[Fiend]

Good moves on that. Top-out looks like the E7 bit!

[SA Chris]

Good moves on that. Top-out looks like the E7 bit!

I'd be fuckityfucking at that point.

Joe Wilkinson looked solid on it though.

[A.Greenhorne]

Looks easier than easy pickings

[SA Chris]

Gripped, Climbing the Killer Pillar, is out now! This looks to be the blockbuster we've all been waiting for. I watched 10 mins with the kids yesterday and it didn't disappoint, a veritable cheeseboard.

Also on Prime.

[Fiend]

Only sticking this in here because of one very small snippet of naff advertising, and also it still being a project, but it looks like a great route with cool varied moves:

[cheque]

I believe it was shot in 2017 and had a long wait for funding to finish the edit or similar. There’ll be a dead link to the original trailer if you scroll back through this thread far enough.

[Steve R]

Recently added a few vids of grit headpoints from late last year to youtube.  Couple of new routes in there, might be of interest to some:



https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU3bvIKrMX35ss_2pFSc87A

[grimer]

  Love Rivelin

[grimer]

WRT Killer Piller, i thought it looked ok (i watched it in two minutes). But the people seemed totally like the people you meet at american climbing campsites and the characters' behavoiurs seemed pretty realistic. And the climbing looked like climbing and it looked like it was done by the actors who I thought also acted ok? And the place was beautiful.

[duncan]

Some Malaysian lads climb Naga on the Dragon's Horns, Tioman Island. They climb, they get wet, and have a bivi on the summit. Captures the place and what an adventure it was for them. A bit too much head-spinning GoPro but compensated with some great drone shots and an unpretentious tone to it all.

More about Tioman and the route here.

[Will Hunt]

After weeks of waiting, it's here. A coming-of-age classic chronicling the mythical Sam Marks' odyssey from overweight whelp to climbing lion.

Mullet 2020

[Nike Air]

Nicely developed that. Ace. 🙂

[Pope B]

Controversial putting it in non-quality, Sam Marks won't be happy when he hears that.

[Wood FT]

#SamMarks

The reincarnation of the illustrious scut with a mullet 

[jwi]

De l'O2 dans le gaz looks like a great find on Verdon's left bank. Insane exposure at the relatively moderate grade of 8a+/b apparently. It is a pity that it is so far from the climbing on the right bank (unless you have a helicopter). Close to Ramirole though.