Because what really fascinates us is the myth, the legend, the small details that are passed by only in random conversations. Something vaguely mysterious and uncertain. An aura is undefined, it is there but not clear in its margins. What is widely known and accepted does not necessarily constitues the aura, but the reputation, that is based on facts.
I thought this was going to either a) an outing of the Twitter profile
I heard someone shouted so loud when they fell off at the cornice police turned up an hour later to see what the fuss was.
This is now doing my head in... I reckon you are right.My aged brain cannot remember who was the thumb assisted climber..
Indeed, but I don't think the placement had been found/unearthed yet. Andy Woodward had soloed it so that's what we did. The funniest incident on EJ was when Al Williams didn't fall off. Al is at the last move and is sketching. Me and Nick Dixon are kneeling on the top watching from a distance of about one foot - close enough to touch him. Al keeps repositioning his feet on the smears and squeezing the rugosities but its warm and he's getting nowhere. Al calls for help and Nick sticks out his hand, Al lunges and just manages to latch ... Nick's thumb. Miraculously, everything holds and Al pulls over. He did it the next go.
On a glorious November day in 2013, a young, fresh faced, lad called Will Hunt made his way all the way down to the Peak from Yorkshire. On that same day his hero, Adam Long, also made his way to the Peak. Via a series of freak circumstances Will managed to climb The Storm whereas Adam did not. Will hasn't stopped smiling since.
The gritstone phallus is the one that popped into my mind too!!
Al grabbed my thumb.I don't think I remember ever hearing that Phil would solo down Black Magic, but who knows?
The best blatantly false rumour I heard told (and told absolutely straight faced too) was that Malc was so weak from dieting when he did Hubble that he had to be carried from the car to the crag.
Quote from: SamT on November 25, 2016, 08:15:14 amThe gritstone phallus is the one that popped into my mind too!!Likewise. The complexity if the surrounding story changes with every version though.
talking of Kilnsey, I heard one about little Nick (think that's what everyone called him) trying to do a racing start on the road at the base of the crag on his motorbike and back flipping it. it might have been true though.
Not really a rumour, as I witnessed the whole thing, but I wanted to share nonetheless.My friend fell from two-thirds of the way up Right Wall E5 at Brimham, ripping various pieces of gear, and landed on his belayer. He walked away absolutely fine, but we had to call mountain rescue for the belayer who ended up in a back brace for several months.