all i know is its way easier than Cry Freedom!!!!
Looking at the wiki, do people really think that the full traverse is an 8a+ into a 7b+?
Bend to the end is 7b+/7c, and the high break on it's own is about 6c, so adding in the high break it'd be 8a+ into a 7c.
In practice though because you don't get much of a rest before the corner it's more like 8b to a hands-off bridge rest into a 7a+ to finish
IMO anyone who thinks that Bend to the end is 7b+ needs to learn to climb upwards, learn to climb with a rope on, or actually go and climb some 7b+s and 7cs. Low life on it's own would be 7b+ if it went upwards. I'd say High break + Bend + Low life + end pottering = 7c+/8aish. Or maybe I need to learn to traverse?
Oops. I just did what the guy on the video on vimeo did. Guess it doesn't really matter anyway given the no-hander (I couldn't get no-hands bridged but did manage to sit, facing rightwards on the low ledge on the right of the corner with a toe hook to keep me in which gave no hands).
Id say 8b+ to the corner, anyone who blows it after the corner deserves a good clip round the ear.
Was that you I met on Saturday? Don't you live in Sheffield? Much respect for making the pilgrimage to try it if so.
I suggest climbing up and down the drainpipe on your house for a hour every day.
Except that the 60m route in france doesn't have a single flatty on it. I suggest climbing up and down the drainpipe on your house for a hour every day.Falling off after the corner is better than stepping off at the corner and thinking you'd done the full traverse for 10 years...Going there tonight, anyone know what the weather is like over there?