[jwi]

[jwi]

First ascent of Les yeux plus gros que l'antre, with subs.

[duncan]

Yeah machine translation has gotten so good I can no longer be bothered to translate.

Can I tempt you out of retirement to explain Les yeux plus gros que l'antre. Eyes bigger than...? It's presumably some pun or allusion which machines and school-boy french are stumbling over.

[joel182]

Yeah machine translation has gotten so good I can no longer be bothered to translate.

Can I tempt you out of retirement to explain Les yeux plus gros que l'antre. Eyes bigger than...? It's presumably some pun or allusion which machines and school-boy french are stumbling over.

The route is an extension of Les yeux plus gros que le ventre (the's eyes are bigger than the belly),  and translates as the eyes are bigger than the cave. Seb talks about it in this interview on the other channel.

[jwi]

I believe you can say "Eyes bigger than the stomach" (Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre
) in English too? For "bite of more than you can chew"?

"Le ventre" sounds very similar to  "l'antre". Antre is from latin antrum and is a very archaic way of saying cavern/cave which I think is the word-play here. (Antre is mostly used in the sense of "den" in current French.)

Fun fact: Seb referred to the route as "Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre" before he did it.

[abarro81]

It looks totally amazing. Why don't we have stuff like this in the uk damn it!!!

[duncan]

I believe you can say "Eyes bigger than the stomach" (Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre
) in English too? For "bite of more than you can chew"?

You can. I didn't know the idiom translated so directly. Which gives Eyes bigger than t'ledges (E4 6a, Curbar)

[petejh]

Ondra/Shark mash up...

[Johnny Brown]

I feel like Doylo should win some sort of award for this.

[cowboyhat]

I feel like Doylo should win some sort of award for this.

Climbing meme of the year?

Its between this and Joe Kinder by Rawk_tawk

[duncan]

Break on Through by Bob Carmichael. Roger Briggs and Duncan Ferguson climb Naked Edge in a very 1970s style: shakey camera work, oval carabiners, jazz-rock soundtrack, gratuitous nudity, dream sequences, and spectacular sideburns. Add this* to my Aims for 2019.


*spectacular sideburns, obviously

[SA Chris]

https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,6644.msg564717.html#msg564717

resurrection time?

[erm, sam]

That mash up is totally amazing.

[jwi]

[andy popp]

Nice video portrait of the legends that are Mike and Elaine Owen.


Bugger, sorry - didn't realize about the privacy setting.

[jwi]

Bummer, I wouldn't have watched that.

[andy popp]

Weird, when I first posted it it said something about it being unavailable. Anyway, everyone can enjoy it now.

[Wood FT]

I thought that was great, thanks. Jurassic Park was wet when we visited but looking forward to summers down the Loup. As much as I bemoan the sound of drones, some of the footage was spectacular.

[jwi]

[petejh]

Hehe.. 'mega island x'

[cheque]

I enjoyed this. It’s a shame you can’t hear him climbing but that’s the trade-off with drones I suppose. I hadn’t realised how beautiful the location of the route is. 

[jwi]

Can't get enough of Dreamcatcher. What a line.

[cheque]

[Wood FT]

Can't get enough of Dreamcatcher. What a line.

Enjoyed that footage, especially the Rifle clip, that route looks so good and not as blocky as I pictured the place to be in my head.

[slab_happy]

Lynn Hill (58) crushing The Orb (5.13b), all casual-like: