Pythonist

PhD with the Dept. of Medical Physics then for some reason picked up and moved out to California to work for a BioTech... A good few years getting to know big granite in Yosemite, and now trying to settle in to Alpine life in Milan.

Back in the UK, I had great fun running up HVSs, and tackling E1/2 on a good day. Most of the E3's I've met haven't liked me... (but I did get the standard nemesis of Tippler Direct done - great route, but bloody hard!) Yes the E4 onsight was Chalkstorm, and the E5 headpoint was Snivelling, but I don't claim to climb those grades anyway...

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Location
Milano, Italy

Best Climbing Experience
DWS festival 2005. I've learnt DWS is the purest form of climbing and has no fear, hence completed the most amazing set of routes I've ever done in one day. Couldn't move the following one!

New Year's Day 2006 - DWS on the Devon south coast - Labyrinth. Wicked good fun, finishing through a pigeon-filled cave and blow-hole just wider than my shoulders...

9/08/06 - Harborough Rocks challenge. All 46 climbs, onsight solo, 1h53m. Any advances on that?

11/08/06 - Sod all of the above.
Great Slab, Froggatt.

2 moves and gallons of adrenaline.

November 2006 - Jumping between stalactites in Krabi, Thailand. You spot a wall from the boat, jump onto the lowest hanging point, campuss a bit, then simply go exploring across the wall and up hanging gallerys.

16/12/06 - Kachoong at Mt. Arapiles. The first move onto the wall instantly makes you feel like you're 100m off the ground, and then you have to launch out under the roof on the biggest flake you'll ever hang off.

24/12/06 - Stainless Steel, Willyabrup, nr Margret River, Western Australia. Just about the best face climb ever. Gets slowly harder and harder, climbing smaller and smaller flakes, until you're doing wonderfully technical moves that just feel like they're guiding you up the rock. And there's even a capping roof!

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UKC Volunteer
Moderator for 67 crags, checking missing climbs added to the logbooks: Sweet Pain Wall, Ultraman, The Gallery, Cloud Tower, Manure Pile Buttress, Ton Sai Roof, The Pier, The Front Corridor, The Trophy, Sandstone Quarry - Running Man Wall ... plus 57 more, Black Corridor, Donner Summit, Eagle Lake Cliffs, Churchman's Brook, Willyabrup, Solar Slab Wall, Pine Creek Canyon, Stratocaster Area, Red Rocks, Nevada, Black Velvet Wall, Cat Wall, Monitor Wall, Windy Peak, East Face, Mud Spring Canyon, Global Peak, Whiskey Peak, Burlap Buttress, East Formation, Lotta Balls Wall Alcohol Wall, Eagle Wall, Black Orpheus Buttress, Jackrabbit Buttress, South Face, Rose Tower, Jackrabbit Buttress, Northeast Face, Brass Wall, Hidden Falls Wall, Angel Food Wall, Magic Bus, Pinnacles National Monument, Lover's Leap (Tahoe, USA), Sunset Boulders - Goat Rock, Mount St Helena, Cragmont Park, Mount Diablo, Remillard Park, Ring Mountain, Calico Basin, First Creek Canyon, First Pullout, Juniper Canyon, Second Pullout, South Outcrops, White Rock Spring Area, Windy Canyon, Franklin Gorge, Seneca Rocks, Panty Wall (Calico Hills - First Pullout), Magic Bus (Calico Hills - Second Pullout), Front Corridor (Calico Hills - Sandstone Quarry), The Great Red Book (Calico Hills - Second Pullout), Childrens Crag (Willow Springs), Ragged Edges (Willow Springs), Outhouse Wall (Willow Springs), Stone Wall, Lover's Leap Campground Boulders, Tuna And Chips Wall (Calico Hills - First Pullout), Cannibal Crag, Cava di Avigliana, Civate

Interests Outside Climbing
I will happily get dragged along to any sport (except football), music, or theatrical events. Just give me an excuse to do something other than climb!
Now playing racquetball against the yanks to get some fitness back.

About My Photography
Just getting into it. My full gallery is on my website.

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User Profile

registered 02/Oct/03
updated 27/Aug/12

Age
31

Been Climbing For
11 to 20 years

Best Onsights
Trad - E3
Sport - 7a+
Bouldering - f6C
Bouldering - V5

Worked Grades
Trad - E5
Sport - 7b+
Bouldering - V7

Main Sport/Activity
Trad Rock Climbing

Favourite Crag/Rock
Ton Sai Roof and Wall
Gritstone

Favourite Wall
Passagio Obligato

I Climb...
Several times a week
All over the world

Favourite Climbs
Great Portland Street (HVS 5c) - Millstone
Chequer's Buttress (HVS 5a) - Frogatt
Dream of White Horses (HVS 5a) - Gogarth
Strompiombo (E1 5b) - Froggatt
Nick'd (E2 5c) - Gower
Kachoong (21) - Arapiles
Stainless Steel (21) - Willyabrup
Great Slab (E3 5b) - Froggatt
Snivling Shit (E5 6a) - Millstone
North Ridge
Piz Badile (D)

Latest Climbs
Giro di Dama F6a
Vertical Dream F6a+
La pancia F6a+
Nuovo Mattino F5+
Normale F5
Il tetto F5
Placce per Titti F5
Bombarolo 6b+
Dammatra' 6a+
Skipper 5+
Gip 6a+
FBL 6a
SPQR 6b
Fort Knox 6a
Stravizi 6a+
... list all 1166 climbs

Ticklists BETA
... not setup

Climbs Wishlist
Deliverance f7B+
Mohammed the Mad Monk of Moorside Home for Mental Misfits VS 4c
Pleasure Dome E3 5c
Brown's Eliminate Direct E3 5c
The Fascist and Me E4 6a
Stanage VSs XS 6a
Millwheel Wall E1 5b
Oarsman E1 6b
Melancholy Witness E3 5c
Golden Days E3 6a
... list all 45 climbs