[SA Chris]

should probably all go here https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,10721.150.html

[dr_botnik]

Not sure if chuffing includes mixed ice climbing, but stumbled on this and found it really watchable

[JackAus]

[remus]

Maybe I've spent too much time in grotty limestone caves but that looks like amazing climbing. WOuld be interesting to see how hard it is when you're fully rubbered up.

[Fiend]

Quality clarity of footage - and looks hard enough for 95 - with epic non-quality of rock, aesthetics, location. Right to the very sub-Peak finish.

[cheque]

Is that what Akira is?! 

[Fiend]

 

It makes Realisation look like a Tom's Cave link-up.

[Wood FT]

Maybe I've spent too much time in grotty limestone caves but that looks like amazing climbing. WOuld be interesting to see how hard it is when you're fully rubbered up.

You can't be serious with that last sentence... 

[Ally Smith]

Maybe I've spent too much time in grotty limestone caves but that looks like amazing climbing. WOuld be interesting to see how hard it is when you're fully rubbered up.

My mind jumped to the same question - maybe even an injured Barros could trick his way up it?

[abarro81]

My mind jumped to the same question - maybe even an injured Barros could trick his way up it?

I have a long, long list of places I want to go and routes I want to do... I don't think Akira will make it onto the list unless my mum decides to retire to the house nextdoor! Though obvs if it were in the peak I'd be psyched off my tits.

[remus]

Maybe I've spent too much time in grotty limestone caves but that looks like amazing climbing. WOuld be interesting to see how hard it is when you're fully rubbered up.

My mind jumped to the same question - maybe even an injured Barros could trick his way up it?

You've got plenty of skills with the rubber Ally, get on it!

[Fiend]

F8b trad on crisp sandstone, in light snow, with a cool drop down traverse 

[jwi]

Maybe I've spent too much time in grotty limestone caves but that looks like amazing climbing. WOuld be interesting to see how hard it is when you're fully rubbered up.

Quite a lot easier than 9a, I'd guess?

Here is a video of a local climber doing it without using any knee bars at all:



(Clearly not quality, I know, but it adds context to the previous video)

[gme]

Its great this thing is getting done now so it can be crossed off the historic list. Bet it wont stay at 9a either.

It obviously wasn't 9b when it was done, despite Fred claiming its changed since he did it making it impossible to prove. I would have thought that things get harder when they break in a majority of cases although not all.

[gme]

And i bet it would have queues under it in the peak.

[jwi]

It is the QAnon of climbing. (Regarding holds: There are of course counter-rumours as well, I have heard people claiming that holds have vanished since the FA).

[cheque]

And i bet it would have queues a car parked under it in the peak.

[Fiend]

I liked this, despite it being just projects. Nice scenery, nice footage, and nice down-to-earth commentary too. And a heinously slopey 9b project with a back-and-foot rest in it?!

[jwi]

that was great.

[andy popp]

A story about an epic on a Hard Severe becomes the basis for just about the best thing I've ever seen/read on trad climbing mentalities:



Spoiler: pretty much no actual climbing.

[abarro81]

Liked the Jorg one, the final proj looks mega, but God it made me depressed that I live in Sheffield!

[Wood FT]

You could move? We’ll do a whip round, could at least get you to Dover 

[Fiend]

The second best man-made route around, after Artificial Route @ Widdop??

[SA Chris]

Nah, Doris at Ilkley

[Fiend]

Readza just chucked in Cow Udder too, but neither of them have the line / position as Artificial Route or L'Autre . Doris could be a good third after this one tho.