[Houdini]

Fantastic news!  Bon effort!  What an elegant piece of rock.

[dave]

just for academic interest here's what the peak's most prolific toproper wrote about this route:

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/4755/climbing/gritlist/grit_e8.html

Solo. Desperate route up the centre of the slab above the runnel. Easier for the tall and with unusual moves: no handholds on the pebble-less slab result in several rock-overs which require timed momentum from the previous rock-over to enable a foot to be placed higher - ultimate Dawes. Spotters and padding make this relatively safe. F8a

Nice one JB, you've done french 8a!

[nik at work]

Not only done F8a, but done it as a ground up solo, the mans a beast...


Bon effort JB, a great line climbed in great style.

[Fiend]

sublime, I trust you bought the spotters a half of shandy each.

Given the spotting going on in the first picture, that's all they deserve!

P.S. Dave - miaow!

[james]

Lovely little teaser from crabby at http://www.crabstixproductions.com/films.html 

[Nibile]

holy f*** jumping skills!!!

[GCW]

Lovely little teaser from crabby at http://www.crabstixproductions.com/films.html 

That is cool. 
I'm surprised it was only your knees that were sore considering the number of times you landed on your arse.
What a waste of chalk at the end though....

[clm]

watch the last scene of the vid... anyone else get the impression that there has been some of this  going on with the cameara man!!
(good effort word by the way)

[dave]

nice one, looks like a fucking jug to top out on. Made even more impressive by evidently managing to put a hat on mid-crux. Not sure it outdoes katz for changing boots mid problem on mr fantastic.

[yoda]

Nice footage thanx for postin 

[Fiend]

Lovely little teaser from crabby at http://www.crabstixproductions.com/films.html

Niiiiiice 

[Somebody's Fool]

God's hooks! That guy was standing on vertical rock.  I thought I'd seen it all...

[nash1]

All very cool.
Was this inspired by the footage on Dosage 4 of BM trying it?
What other yesteryear testpieces are now available to the masses with paddage?
Ulysses is an obvious one, give me more 3 star beauties.
What about Catasrophe Internationale, is that in the same catagory?
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[a dense loner]

wouldn't really say it was open to the masses nash1. the fall, and you would fall, is a hell of a long way . both james and johnny are two of the best landers in the business (i know that's not a word, i'm giving SF a bit of homework before going to the big smoke). i want to know how a man can stand onto the runnel? anything else is a bonus. my theory is women's hips

[GCW]

All very cool.
Was this inspired by the footage on Dosage 4 of BM trying it?
What other yesteryear testpieces are now available to the masses with paddage?
Ulysses is an obvious one, give me more 3 star beauties.
What about Catasrophe Internationale, is that in the same catagory?
More more

Gaia is a solo (highball?) now.  What font grade is it?

[Duma]

Is it me, or is Mick deluded as to the difference between ground up and onsight?
From Cocktalk:

...although some have been onsighted, or in modern parlance 'ground-upped'

Awesome effort JB, but I take it you wouldn't claim to have onsighted Angels Share?

btw is this named after the whisky lost whilst maturing?

[unclesomebody]

Is it me, or is Mick deluded as to the difference between ground up and onsight?
From Cocktalk:

...although some have been onsighted, or in modern parlance 'ground-upped'

Awesome effort JB, but I take it you wouldn't claim to have onsighted Angels Share?

btw is this named after the whisky lost whilst maturing?

Yes, that's correct Duma. And I think the route is called The Angel's Share. I think.

[Ena]

Gaia is a solo (highball?) now.  What font grade is it?

7C - like everything else?! Is this some in joke that everything in the Peak is now 7C?

Brilliant bit of climbing Adam. Cocktalk Thread  http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=230869 for fucks sake - seems you forgot to clean the chalk off between attempts!

[Fiend]

It's called Rocktalk. If you really want to be dismissive of the UKClimbing forums there are much better ways to do it than lowering yourself to an adjacent level.

[tc]

A fine effort. I top roped this a couple of times several years ago with the express intention of never soloing it and it felt like the living end, far harder than Benign Lives, my other slabtastic tick from the same era.  

[north_country_boy]

Benign Lives........went for a walk (wet/cold/windy one) along Frogatt Sunday and noticed the small birch tree growing from beneath the slab must now make this unclimable in its current state.....just a thought......

Good effort Adam!

[aly]

BL should be fine but I think the tree gets in the way of Mild a bit

[fatboySlimfast]

btw is this named after the whisky lost whilst maturing?

not wishing to be a pedant but....its actually brandy.

[Eddies]

Waw wa wee wa, and I thought BM was awesome for just getting up the runnel and onto the slab in Dosage4.
Beenie's off to ya JB

[Sloper]

btw is this named after the whisky lost whilst maturing?

not wishing to be a pedant but....its actually brandy.

Ahem, sorry to be an uber pedant but the phrase is well known in connection with whisky, never heard it mentioned with regard to cognac / armagnac.