Quote from: remus on January 27, 2022, 11:07:16 amThe BMC have put the film about Emma Twyford's ascent of Big Bang up on youtube. Nice flick if you haven't seen it before.Nice to see some footage of Emma doing Big Bang but what the fuck is Gresh doing speaking on it!? He’s never climbed 9a, not put any time into the route. Steve is the most appropriate one and even he’s massively inappropriate. Why not interview Caff, Neil Carson, some of Emma’s female contemporaries like Mina or hazel or maddy? Seemed weird to me.
The BMC have put the film about Emma Twyford's ascent of Big Bang up on youtube. Nice flick if you haven't seen it before.
Did Jerry seriously try BB?
Was chatting to Steve the other day about what a ballache it would be to try something hard on a Welsh sea cliff while living in Sheffield. I suspect that's why he's not done it.
On a spectrum of reasons for not putting serious time/effort into any of the hardest Welsh sport routes his attitude appears to me to be closer to the 'can't be bothered/not psyched' end and further from the 'it's genuinely too impractical' end.
No I totally understood you. He’s not psyched, and that’s fair enough. I just find it a little bit disingenuous - possibly out of not wanting to say the routes don’t inspire - to write off trying because ‘it’s a ball-ache’. It isn’t the other end of the world. Just say you’re not psyched by the routes. Quote from: petejh on February 19, 2022, 12:32:19 pmOn a spectrum of reasons for not putting serious time/effort into any of the hardest Welsh sport routes his attitude appears to me to be closer to the 'can't be bothered/not psyched' end and further from the 'it's genuinely too impractical' end.
I've only done it a couple of times when visiting my folks in sheffield, but Sheff to malham always seems like the biggest PITA drive in the known universe.
Dark Energy is the best sport route in the UK.That's not an opinion, it's a statement of fact.
Oh look, people are taking positions at the poles of an argument on the internet for no reason.
If routes like Dark Energy, The Pink Star etc were 5 minutes outside Tideswell they'd be at the very top of my "to try" list. The faff involved puts them at the bottom instead.
Quote from: El Mocho on February 20, 2022, 12:34:38 pmDark Energy is the best sport route in the UK.That's not an opinion, it's a statement of fact.Be the best in the world if most the holds weren’t like butter most the summer, the top was dry more than 2.8% of the time and without the new seal ban in September when it’s finally climbable . Is like a piece of world class art that they only put on display 5 days a year .
You also forgot the awkward climb-down to the beach.. where rungs were put in to make it easier but stupid tourists broke their ankle falling off so the council made us remove.Could be worse though, it could be on the Diamond.