The spike foothold on the moves left at the top of Zoolook looked chipped to me.‘The Angel’s Share’ is the quantity of whisky which evaporates from the cask when it’s stored for aging btw
Not a great film, but still pretty good, and worth a watch https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1924394/
To please Fiend, in these parts, namely Lancs quarries, Cheat is pretty infamous in Wilton... a blank wall with 3 or 4 perfectly chipped and placed crimps. Terrifying to set off up if you're at your limit, but the holds appear just when needed. That said I've seen a couple of heinous videos of lobs from the top, that are very close to disaster. Rumours of the villain of the crime still circulate. Skip to ends...
Yorkshire grit is full of examples but the Derbyshire and Staffordshire equivalents much less so. Were the latter much less climbed - more vigorously wardened perhaps - during the era when chipping was more accepted?
Quote from: duncan on May 26, 2023, 09:21:34 amYorkshire grit is full of examples but the Derbyshire and Staffordshire equivalents much less so. Were the latter much less climbed - more vigorously wardened perhaps - during the era when chipping was more accepted?I asked Dennis Gray about this a while ago (1993-ish I guess). He told me there was a prolific Yorkshire chipper in action when he started climbing. Apparently Dennis and other climbers used to steal equipment from the chipper to try and slow him down. He said some of the chip ladders the guy carved on Caley boulders went up established natural climbs. That conversation gave me the impression that the one guy was responsible for much of the Yorkshire Grit chipping and was hated for it by other climbers at the time..
That conversation gave me the impression that the one guy was responsible for much of the Yorkshire Grit chipping and was hated for it by other climbers at the time..
I actually had a couple questions for people regarding this thread:1) would it be possible to fix a lot of the chips using resin mixed with broken rock and dirt to fill the chips? I’m guessing the fact it hasn’t been done means it wouldn’t work?