8c was first climbed in 1989
The key point here is that this is a discussion thread, not the news section of a magazine. The bar is and should be set lower. Unlike column inches in a mag space is not limited here. 8c ascents are indeed common these days, far commoner than in the 90s infact (despite what misty eyed old timers will tell you). If we'd had t'interweb in the 90s people would have been reporting 8a+/8b repeats on threads like this. Why? Because it's just some old chat about people we know. It's not the bleedin' oscars is it.Also folk are apt to forget that there's more to whether something is of news interest than the grade along. For instance has the route remained unrepeated for a long time, is the ascentionist especially old/young, have they got to a particular level exceptionally fast, did they climb the route whilst wearing a pig mask and farting the Bolivian national anthem?
On that sentiment. See Chris Savage did progress @ Kilnsey today. (i was supposed to be there today but skipped to do DIY )
(Note that UKC got that news from my blog and not through me pimping myself to them).
If significant is the hardest of the time and that alone then there is only one person to write about - Ondra.
heard on the grapevine that Dan Varian repeated Superboc.anyhting else happening in this nice weather?
if you got rid of parasellas and raventor. only 4 foreign people have ever climbed 8B bloc in the uk (caminati, nacho, bollinger,robinson)
Dylan, the 5th ascent of an 8A? why dont you just write the 90th ascent of a 7C? because it'd be just as erroneous (and therefore utterly pointless) as what you just wrote. Superboc hasnt even had 5 ascents yet and its been 3 years since that was written. Miles, Me (GU), Mike (GU), Bransby. And its rebuffed alot of other attempts and bloody broken Niges leg. So the very least you could do is make a vague effort to write something which is actually true. lovely to read that though boy i'm keen now... i'm off to do something shit and insignificant which isn't worth talking about (as always actually).
Didnt win the rising sun quiz again then?
Dylan: superboc is 8A+ my ascent was the second not the 5th and it was ground up (although ryan robbing himself on the last possible move was basically the second). I knew what you were trying to say but it is a poor way to make a point when every supporting fact you state is erroneous. Either that or you've just got a job alongside James Delingpole or Christopher Booker