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« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 04:47:15 pm »
I've just finished a book I think a lot of people here might enjoy (indeed, might have read already). In 1950s Togo, a young boy has a nearly deadly encounter with a snake, recovering he reads a book about Greenland and becomes obsessed with travelling there. In 1958, aged 16, he ran away from home and spent the next eight years working his way through Africa and Europe before eventually reaching Greenland in 1964. In Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland Tété-Michel Kpomassie tells the remarkable (true) story of that journey and, in particular, the eighteen months he spent living among the inidigenous Greenlanders, by whom he seems to have been welcomed without question. It is a rich, vivid, and humane portrayal both of the author as a young man and of a culture even then coming under immense pressure
Just finished this. Really enjoyed it, but thought/ hoped it would cover more of his amazing journey to get there than his time spent there. Either way, a fascinating and enjoyable read.
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Deliver'd - https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/fanny-lye-deliverd-maxine-peake-thomas-clay-their-17th-century-folk-thrillerShropshire based tale of sadism and liberation with a hint of mysticism, I'm interested to find out more about Quakers. A solid 6/10
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« Last post by Will Hunt on Today at 04:36:35 pm »
It took me all of April and the first week of May but I finished the 1200 page beast that is The Count of Monte Cristo. I was daunted by it's vintage and girth but found it very very enjoyable. Accessible, if not verbose, writing. The only thing it needs is some spoiler-free reminders of who's who and what their personal history with the other characters is. A lot happens, everyone changes their names, and sometimes you have to think for a minute to remember some affair that two characters had 600 pages ago.
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« Last post by jwi on Today at 04:18:13 pm »
Aubin Salmon has done Nirvana, an old highball project in Puiselet that has been tried by a few enthusiasts over the years. Guillaume Joubert has already top-roped the prow a while ago at a suggested grade of 8A+ with a precarious 7B mantelshelf sequence to top out.  Source: Grimper Magazine (photo Declerck/BévillardHVS 7b?
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« Last post by Duma on Today at 03:19:27 pm »
Thanks Duncan. Bit of a nothing week for me, missed a couple of windows to get out then working for the weekend.
M - sleeping off nights, then declined invitation to get out from Adam Lincoln of this parish as feeling like death. Should have made the effort, but as anyone who's recovered from nights will know, that's a hard call just after lunchtume... TCA later (eve), 90 min. Still feeling pretty groggy but repeated a couple of blues first go, and minor progress on current projects.
T - jerked awake unreasonably early by phone call. Banging headache all morning. Lunch , UCR, 120 min. Just some easy routes up to 7a, not feeling up to anything harder. Eve, TCA, 120 min. Mainly there for the social but obviously got drawn in to the reset on the roof. Managed a white and a black but pointless session really.
W -
T - eve, TCA, 120 min. Reset on the vert corner upstairs, 6A to 7A+. 10 problems, did all, flashed 8, one misread but fine second go, one actually tricky, maybe 10 goes. Then downstairs to the new roof set, slightly better than Tuesdays effort, progress on a tricky black but no tick.
F - 12 hr shift
S - 12 hr shift
S - 12 hr shift
72 kg.
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« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 01:51:11 pm »
Not much to report training wise, not a good week.
M - not much, taking it easy after cheating my way round 15 mile run on Sunday. Usual coffeemaking pullups but little else.
T - same
W - same. Think I did a few pickups with the edge.
T - was going for a lunchtime run, but got a last minute doc appt.
F - drive to Glen Affric, got there later than intended thanks to detour. 14km cycle to YH with stupidly heavy pack. Light needed for most of the route. Drank whisky until too late.
S - misty start, both in head and outdoors. as weather lifted, headed up Beinn Fhada, great views all round, but a demoralising circuitous descent - 22km. More whisky, determined not to carry it back out again.
S - slow start to cycle out but a lot easier with lighter pack - 14 km. Stopped for a look at the Ledge in Inverness, but non-climbing mate not keen to hang about..
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« Last post by Nibile on Today at 01:29:29 pm »
Power Club
Mon - DL 531 week 3. Bentover rows.
Tue - farmer's. Pull ups. Heavy.
Wed - tired. Board climbing, set and climbed a problem just at the right intensity. Board fitness is one problem. Back work, bar work.
Thu - weights, pull ups.
Fri - dips, push ups, DL 531 week 4.
Sat - regular weights.
Sun - boxing bag.
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« Last post by sherlock on Today at 12:27:50 pm »
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
I thought this was pretty good; although it's fairly violent, I felt that it really wasn't glamorised. In some ways, it's typical of a Liam Neeson film, but in others not so much. Worth watching anyway, it's on Netflix.
I thought it was ok, watchable and kept my interest to the end. An added bonus was the brief glimpses of the fantastic scenery, presumably west coast of Ireland?. I have actually been but saw nothing but rain and low level cloud for 3 sodden weeks. It's the only complete wash out trip we've ever had!
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« Last post by stone on Today at 10:11:01 am »
We found "No Exit" riveting.
Apparently critics were unimpressed though.
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« Last post by alba on Today at 09:45:44 am »
Hi, thanks for the welcome last week and starting this week's thread. Welldone on the finger strength PB.
I can't fully remember my climbing this week apart from Thursday and then Saturday. Should make notes really.
Thursday: Climbed the 6a+ sport route I'd tried 2 or 3 times before. Wasn't that hard this time. Also climbed a boulder problem I'd been trying for quite a while, a V3.
Saturday: Got within about 3 moves of a 6b+ sport route. I imagine I'll go back and get that in the next week or two. I also made good progress on a Moonboard V3. I could barely do one move when I started and am now 3 or 4 moves into it. I feel like it's doable at some point which is great. Good thing about the moonboard is I feel like this is a proper V3 and it trains my weakness which is steep overhanging terrain.
I can now do quite a few of the V4 and even the odd V5s in the bouldering area although I know these are overgraded. Only thing that matters is they are largely right in relation to each other. Got close to a V6 on a slab.
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