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Hazel Findlay has done her first 8A Fourteen Years Later Sit (Corridors of Power which she’d done before now down to 7C+)

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Good knowledge, thanks shark.

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#252 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
September 12, 2021, 08:25:20 am
Irish crusher and all round legend Katie Maxwell recently climbed Fourteen Years Later Low too. Her first 8A

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#253 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
November 17, 2021, 12:01:24 pm
Gwyneth Uttley climbed Back Street Mime Artist a few weeks ago.

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#254 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
November 17, 2021, 12:16:28 pm
Gwyneth Uttley climbed Back Street Mime Artist a few weeks ago.

Thanks for the update, good to see her consolidating. https://climbing-history.org/list/4/strong-british-female-boulderers

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Anna wild has done working 9-5 if that's 7C+
Airlie Borlase has done peckits traverse 7C
Rebecca Stevens also did Tourniquet at 8A, just for completeness
I think the 8A Rachel Daly did was called Lycan It rather than Lycan
Gil Pete has also done Lycan It, would be surpised if she hasn't done a few 8as though

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Hazel Dearlove climbed Tsunami 8A as her first of the grade back in April.

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Good updates, added those in, thanks both.

https://climbing-history.org/list/4/strong-british-female-boulderers

Jessica Sakura Ward has bouldered 7C - Taylor Made at Dinas Rock- she is an 11 year old GB youth mini wad! Also a European champion!

Video of her online

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Well good! Mini beast!

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Airlie Borlase has done peckits traverse 7C
As has Ayesha Khan but I imagine she's already on the list for at least Underhand Extension and others

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As has Ayesha Khan but I imagine she's already on the list for at least Underhand Extension and others

She’s got a funny accent for a ‘UK woman’ 😄

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I failed to remember my own thread title. Ah well, still strong!

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#263 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
September 19, 2022, 02:39:53 pm
Ayesha (idk her surname sorry) has done the revolution is coming at 8A, as Airlie Borlase

My girlfriend swears there's a third lady to have done Rev recently but cannot remember who?

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#264 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
September 19, 2022, 03:34:09 pm
Lucy Ross did it at the end of August?

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#265 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
September 19, 2022, 03:34:57 pm
Ayesha (idk her surname sorry) has done the revolution is coming at 8A, as Airlie Borlase

My girlfriend swears there's a third lady to have done Rev recently but cannot remember who?

Looking at the UKC logbooks a lady called Lucy Ross did it recently, might be who your girlfriend is thinking of? Strong scenes down at Hartland by the look of it, 3 ascents in 4 days!

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#267 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
September 19, 2022, 04:19:46 pm
Ayesha (idk her surname sorry) has done the revolution is coming at 8A, as Airlie Borlase

My girlfriend swears there's a third lady to have done Rev recently but cannot remember who?

Ayesha is Canadian....

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#268 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
February 05, 2023, 06:47:26 pm
I've been trawling through old issues of On The Edge (thanks Jim!) and there's mention of Jenny Woodward climbing "Hitchikers  font 7c/7c+ making possibly the second female ascent after Sadie Renwick".

Im not that familiar with Kyloe, but it seems Hitchikers gets 7A+ on UKC. Can anyone more familiar with the crag clarify?

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#269 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
February 05, 2023, 06:53:06 pm
There are two sit starts to hitchhiker's one is 7c/+ the other 7c+ I believe... But I'm also fairly lacking in county knowledge other than that!

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#270 Re: UK women who have bouldered >= 8A
February 05, 2023, 08:03:27 pm
The classic 7A+ version starts by stepping off a large block off to the right. Dan's right there are two sit starts according to UKC.

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The thread title is out of date; the list on climbing history records female ascents at 7C and up rather than 8A.

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The thread title is out of date; the list on climbing history records female ascents at 7C and up rather than 8A.

This. 8A turned out to be a fairly short list, so I opened it up a bit to 7C to keep the numbers on the list around the 100-200 mark as in practice this is a kinda manageable size while still having some interesting names you probably won't have heard of.

 

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