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Night time Australian antics....
January 15, 2007, 02:07:59 pm
Ben Cossey, who recently soloed Gaia, led Parthian Shot last night by headtorch (gear was pre-placed in the flake). He also did it via a direct start, rather than coming in from the right, as per all other ascents making it a more sustained proposition apparantly. His brother Lee led the same start and placed the gear in the flake on the lead, but then fell off on the crux move. The ascent had 3 independent witnesses. They'd both been working in Outside in Hathersage all day, and Lee is returning to Oz on Wednesday, hence the need to do it on Sunday night or not at all!

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#1 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 15, 2007, 02:10:27 pm
Waddage. :o

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#2 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 15, 2007, 02:51:12 pm
Waddage indeed! Good work Ben (if you read this). Glad you managed to see at least one nice days weather in the peak Lee, shame you won't be around for better weather and another crack.
« Last Edit: January 15, 2007, 03:39:11 pm by Bonjoy »

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#3 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 15, 2007, 03:33:28 pm
Good work. I still think this ranks as one of, if not, the best line(s) on grit... Glad to hear the flake is still holding falls...

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#4 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 15, 2007, 03:43:02 pm
And even better for starting direct!
Anyone know how this bit was approached? Solo up to gear over pads, solo no pads, or gear in crack?

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#5 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 15, 2007, 03:59:56 pm
More importantly, is this the second ascent of Child's Play(?)? Darren Thomas' direct start to Partheon Shot that scuttled off at half height. 




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#7 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 16, 2007, 06:45:14 am
 :o :jaw:

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#8 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 16, 2007, 01:22:56 pm
So an E7 into an E9 by headtorch  :jaw:. Still giving it E9 I see, just more sustained. Hmmm, those numbers don't add up, surely must be E10  :-\

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#9 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 16, 2007, 01:53:57 pm
or maybe the original way was just a 'soft' E9 - fair play to the bloke for not being a glory hound and claiming the E10 I say, I'm sure few would have disputed him if he had

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#10 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 16, 2007, 02:07:50 pm
Basically, he's a really good lad with little experience of British grading and no desire to make a 'fuss'. He also seems to have a surfeit of talent, which never helps with grading!

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#11 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 16, 2007, 02:37:12 pm

Ben and Lee

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started climbing at the age of 11 back in'64,manly rapelling and ice climbing with machine nuts and noted cables as pro.getting a bit old for this thing.sports climbing is easyer on the nerves and my pace makered heart. all you young lads will have the same problems when your old too!! i have 2 children,lafertie,22 and merisy 18. not as married as i once was,so im left to my own devises (if you know what i mean) is there a word,an expression even an emotion to express the hollow in in my loveless heart?. my perpetualy furrowed brow ,my covolsive facial spasms and a countinence that shows eternal sorrow but portrays little of what i have felt. oh, my dearest beloved,love like i had for you has never been felt in the history of all things, my body aches with every heaving breath and acrid tears fall,a never ending deluge of grief burning trenches deep into my already disfigured pallid face. i have tried to live a happy life without you,it is like living life without a heart or a soul and tears wash nothing away. eternal non-existance awaits me as it has taken you, my only eternal love.i dont regret my birth as it brought me to you,i regret not telling you of the ardent never ending love i had for you. my life ended when yours ended,it is only my body that must now leave this earth.where was i before i was born, years before i was conceived.i know not,only that there is not the potential for such a wretched existance after my departure .eternal rest at last. i'll never stare into you deep brown eyes again,run my fingures through your flowing brown hair nor feel your hand on mine,no heaven ,no hell,nothing. my love. my life,the blood that once flowed in veins, i loved you.
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#12 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 16, 2007, 09:05:51 pm
Genius! its like Si O without the lying...

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#13 Re: Night time Australian antics....
January 18, 2007, 03:15:39 pm
Sounds a bit...


...to me, but a damn fine effort.

I guess the lack of light helped in so much as you couldn't see the ground to worry about how far you were going to fall!!!

 

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