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COMP: A Grand Day Out 19: The Eiger Moment

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 UKC Articles 21 Mar 2009
[The Drainpipe, Burbage South., 3 kb]This was my destiny. I felt the axe bite and it locked off. Had I found the key to this route? This was my last chance. Looking down I could see my last protection 20 metres below. It was now or never. I trusted my weight to the axe and straightened my arm. I straddled the arête with my left leg; I could feel the point of my crampon rest on the smallest of edges, the width of a fifty pence piece. As I stood up I could see the flake I was aiming for, just another metre above me.

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THE LYON EQUIPMENT COMPETITION A Grand Day Out is another creative competition and a chance to express yourself and share your adventures. As usual there are great prizes to win.

Full details http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=1606

This competition is closed. The remaining entries, all 34, will be published between now and the end of March with the winners announced in early April.

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