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#25 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 10:20:25 am
i think malc ascents have been equaled and out done apart from 8c+ at 18, but of course relative what he was doing was much harder!
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#26 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 10:47:50 am
i think malc ascents have been equaled and out done apart from 8c+ at 18, but of course relative what he was doing was much harder!

Only the really important one then and relative to the time they were done !!!!! Name some other Brits who have climbed 9a (8b equivalent) at < 16 and 9b (8c+ equivalent) & 8B at 18yrs or less or even got close.

In fact even if we take out the historical context it would appear that whilst a hand full of people now have equalled Malcs 8b at 16years, only Matt Donnelly has surpassed it, and no one is close to his 8c+ (maybe 9a in modern times) ascent at 18yrs.

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#27 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 11:57:30 am
 :agree:

Except Malc was 17 when he did his first 8b (Magnetic).

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#28 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 02:35:34 pm
yes there are a few british climbers who have climbed 8b younger than malc, but its all relative to what was going on at the time so yes i agree also

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#29 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 03:05:47 pm
yes there are a few british climbers who have climbed 8b younger than malc

So who else is there, other than Matt Donnelly mentioned already?

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#30 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 03:21:00 pm
http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=67081
And maybe jonny stocking or Luke Tilley

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#31 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 03:50:33 pm
http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=67081
And maybe jonny stocking or Luke Tilley

Tom Bolger?

Martin Watson has already been mentioned (even though Grooved Arete is definitely no more than 8a+)

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#33 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 03:58:29 pm
Don't go for that job at the Yard yet Holmes.....

http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=7393

He posted earlier on the thread!

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#34 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 04:01:44 pm
Pesky meddling kids!

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#35 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 04:40:07 pm
Pesky meddling kids that climb harder than me!

a quick edit.. ;)

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#36 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 07, 2012, 08:02:16 pm
If only it was just kids

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#37 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 20, 2012, 10:25:03 am
acording to 8a.nu Wiz Fineron (lives in new zealand but from wales) has done his first 8c at age 17

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#38 Re: Youngest Brit to climb 8b and 8c?
November 21, 2012, 09:31:10 pm
 :agree:

jasp & malc were also part of the cellar revolution... which encompassed nigh on every training climber in sheffield for a year or so... and then it caught on ( yes, i know malc's board was in scotland)

 

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