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1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:02:04 pm
Emma Twyford - Big Bang, LPT.  :clap2:

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#1 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:14:15 pm
Awesome!!!  :bounce:  :bow:

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#2 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:17:11 pm
 :great:

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#3 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:18:33 pm
Brilliant. Been kind of following her progress on IG so great to see!

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#4 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:20:58 pm
 :strongbench:

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#6 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:32:59 pm
Ace, congrats!

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#7 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:40:03 pm
That’s great news

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#8 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 08:57:36 pm
Fantastic news!! Well done Em  :great: :dance1:

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#9 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 09:10:00 pm
Just bloody brilliant  ;D

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#10 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 09:13:44 pm
Awesome news! Just the best.

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#11 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 09:25:17 pm
Inspirational

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#12 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 09:51:11 pm
 :2thumbsup:

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#13 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 09:51:46 pm
Fantastic news  :2thumbsup:

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#14 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 17, 2019, 11:08:48 pm
"I wasn't pumped and it had felt like a path."

 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

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#15 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 06:37:10 am
 :strongbench:

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#16 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 08:35:51 am
Absolute waddage. This is the third ascent, right?

"I wasn't pumped and it had felt like a path."

Words we can all relate to. :look:

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#17 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 09:06:59 am
Didn't Pete Robins do it too?

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#18 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 09:15:23 am
Didn't Pete Robins do it too?

Not as far as I know

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#19 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 09:16:39 am
Didn't Pete Robins do it too?

Only route down there he hasn’t done. Too fat.

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#20 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 01:11:58 pm

"I wasn't pumped and it had felt like a path."

Words we can all relate to. :look:


I certainly can relate.*
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* with the following provisions and conditions.
A: the route is 5c or less.
B: the route is <10mtrs long.
C: nobody actually saw me doing the route and the belayer didn’t look up and had ear plugs in.

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#21 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 03:14:09 pm
This is so great. Anyone know if it was caught on video?

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#22 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 03:56:15 pm
Brilliant!! So inspirational!!

Quote from: SA Chris
Anyone know if it was caught on video?

Photo credit on the UKC news item goes to Hot Aches so sounds likely?

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#23 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 05:38:25 pm
Excellent

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#24 Re: 1st 9a by British female
September 18, 2019, 06:55:00 pm
I don’t think the pictures on the UKC article are from yesterday- she’s wearing different coloured clothes in the post-send clip on Angus Kille’s Instagram story.

 

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