[Paz]

http://www.planetfear.com/news_detail.asp?n_id=5471

It doesn't say how big the cams are.  
That black tape looks bo.
Hope he doesn't come over to Near Hearkening Rock anytime soon.

[Duma]

Class, is that black tape inner tube? - if so ain't that cheatin'? Fiend?

[Paz]

I think it's just black tape but, no, i don't think so.  You can lose as much flesh and blood as you like in the name of style but you generally only make that ethical point once.  You're not going to get any sympathy.  So now that you're sensibly going to tape something to the back of your hand it might as well have friction (or indulge a rubber fetish).  Maybe it's like martial arts - he's got a black belt in roof crack climbing.  Check his beard out!

[a dense loner]

Berthod's ascent came on his second day on the climb since having pinkpointed it two years before.

so he's put gear in instead of using the bolts?

[Paz]

Berthod's ascent came on his second day on the climb since having pinkpointed it two years before.

so he's put gear in instead of using the bolts?

Yes.  Read the older story.  Three other Eye Tall Ians originally bolted it (no idea who climbed it with them) then two years ago the man DB chopped dem bolts (but put in another one after the action, presumably as a lower off) and climbed it without them, but preplacing his gear.  Now he's gone and done it putting his own gear in whilst out there, just like you and I do when you we go tradding.  

Maybe he would've done it placing the gear on the lead sooner but it took two years for him to grow enough skin back after he did it the first time.

[Paz]

Is the man actually wearing gloves afterall:

http://www.mtntools.com/cat/rclimb/chalkacc/handjammies.htm

Hadn't heard of them before.