A fantastic effort and the 1st repeat in about 10 years or so. The last person to do it was Steve Mac and it's had some high calibre flung at it since without success.
Peckett did cherry falls yesterday at almscliff, probably the only dry place in england!!Was sweet!Mina has done le piller (another 8a) to!Both beasts!
Didn't Jerry give it F8c+ originally? And it got downgraded to F8c? Or am I getting mixed up with Progress. Cool vid footage.
Unsurprising awesome despatch from Ryan.Was chatting to Steve (the only man who knows), about grades specifically at the Tor and Evolution being 8c isn't consistent with the rest of the routes, MIF, the Extentions, StaminaPump etc. - 'only Nick thought it was 8c because he did it quickly and for some reason that opinion stuck'.
Quote from: cowboyhat on December 01, 2009, 12:00:10 pmUnsurprising awesome despatch from Ryan.Was chatting to Steve (the only man who knows), about grades specifically at the Tor and Evolution being 8c isn't consistent with the rest of the routes, MIF, the Extentions, StaminaPump etc. - 'only Nick thought it was 8c because he did it quickly and for some reason that opinion stuck'.Only Nic, the world's most prolific undergrader.
Coming to a mountain near you soon, runaway winner of '09 Outside-the-box award, its The Big Fight Alpine style:Simpson vs Steck
runaway winner of '09 Outside-the-box award
Mina ticks Fake Pamplemousse at Brione 8a. For me this is amazing and by far the most impressive and probably hardest thing she's done. The other stuff she's done are hard but it didn't surprise me that she'd ticked them having very strong fingers. Stuff like Teamwork and Le Pilier see female ascents evrry winter. This however is pure burl, every move is pretty hard with the crux first move being burly as hell. It was enough to stop Smitton in his tracks when i was there with him. What a beast!