[remus]

Luke Dawson has done Tigris which is apparently 8B+? (his logbook comment sounds dubious?)

Good spot. His first of the grade I believe? I think he'd be pretty safe taking 8B+ for it if he wanted, the five ascents on 8a have all gone for 8B+.

[yetix]

Aidan dunne has gone from 7c+ to 8b with superman

[remus]

Aidan dunne has gone from 7c+ to 8b with superman

Mega, that's quite the jump!

https://climbing-history.org/list/3/strong-british-male-boulderers

[yetix]

Levan Rowan has done Keen Roof. Looks like he spanned to the lip off a knee and the big left jug! Is that a  ?

[abarro81]

You can go (if tall) to an edge on the lip (not the big hold) with the knee then drop out lh to undercut then flick rh to good hold. That was my method and I think Ed Hamer used something similar before that

[remus]

You can go (if tall) to an edge on the lip (not the big hold) with the knee then drop out lh to undercut then flick rh to good hold. That was my method and I think Ed Hamer used something similar before that

I think Will Smith used this method too and reckoned 8A/+ or so (from memory).

[yetix]

Pretty sure from Levens stories before (but could be wrong) he did it he was going again to the good hold by taking the knee out and bumping, then dropping to the bad undercut on the way to match the stand starting hold

Might be that he uploads a vid of the send which would confirm.

[abarro81]

Will used the hold on the lip but then went LH to the good hold, not sure if anyone else has done it like that?

Dawid did something going all the way to the good hold IIRC but it seemed a long way to me even as a tall guy!

[yetix]

From watching that, pretty sure Leven bumped again, must be a big lad!

[yetix]

Brad Bushell has done Isla De Encanta at Trowbarrow today

[Bradders]

Marco Giudice has done Eagle Huntress Sit at Mardale Head. Pretty incredible looking thing!

[remus]

Thanks for the heads up, added him to the list.

[teestub]

Marco Giudice has done Eagle Huntress Sit at Mardale Head. Pretty incredible looking thing!

Hero! 🤘

[brbushell]

Marco Giudice has done Eagle Huntress Sit at Mardale Head. Pretty incredible looking thing!

Was a pleasure to witness this, what a legend!!

[yetix]

Awesome work, does the list include people who are now based in the UK permanently but were originally from elsewhere then? Sorry if this is discussed elsewhere I just didn't realise, if it is true then Sara Dusza needs adding to the ladies list for doing Little Northumberland. Have noticed that Polish Dave is also on the mens list so I assume that is the case?

[teestub]

I know the south seems like a foreign country, but Marco is from High Wycombe 😄

[remus]

Awesome work, does the list include people who are now based in the UK permanently but were originally from elsewhere then? Sorry if this is discussed elsewhere I just didn't realise, if it is true then Sara Dusza needs adding to the ladies list for doing Little Northumberland. Have noticed that Polish Dave is also on the mens list so I assume that is the case?

Yeah, it's much more 'people who currently live in the UK' than people who were born in the UK. Admittedly it's not very rigorously applied though (e.g. Ayesha Khan is apparently from Canada but seems to live in the UK at the mo).

[yetix]

I know the south seems like a foreign country, but Marco is from High Wycombe 😄

I heard he was originally Italian before I posted... Apologies if that's false.

But yeah Sara has been UK based for 10+ years then if that means she should be on the ladies list

Ayesha was my next suggestion haha

[jwi]

no taxation without representation

[teestub]

You leave that tea where it is

[yetix]

Zed Oliver-Jones did Dernier Atrocity at parisellas cave the other day as his first 8B

Nevermind he's on the list doh!

[brbushell]

Kyle Whitehand has climbed The Vault at Hartland which I believe is his first 8B

[Kingy]

Matt Helliker did it too I believe

[remus]

Good knowledge, thanks both.

[T_B]

Matt Helliker did it too I believe

That’s a good effort climbing your first Font 8b in your forties.