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James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini recently made the 3rd and 4th ascents of the multi pitch route, Les Chemins de Katmandou, Gorges de la Jonte, 8b+ max.
It took just two day of work for James to succeed the whole route, with a further two days needed for Caroline. Chemins de Katmandou was...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=62747

In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

Caroline relegated to "and partner" status now?!

In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

great looking piece of rock!

In reply to flaneur:

Another victim of aliteration

Good effort from James. Funny how big wall sooner or later tempts everyone in.

In reply to flaneur:

Yeh, not sure why it's not Pearson and Ciavaldini.

In reply to iceaxejuggler:

It's a British site, I suppose. In France no doubt it's notre belle Caroline et son perfidious anglais boyfriend.

jcm

In reply to Kemics:

Big wall?

In reply to MJ:

From the article - James has recently become more and more interested in the world of Multi-pitch and Big Walls

The alpine style of big wall climbing, basically very long multi (day?) pitch climbing, seems to be the eventually trajectory for every pro climbers career. No one resists it.

Same interview keeps cropping up with climbers, they feel like something is missing from their chosen discipline any find it in big wall climbing.

Lisa Rands
Leo Houlding
Sonnie Trotter
Nicolas Favresse

so on

.....I feel the call too. Like Polynesians or Vikings who chose to sail from their islands into the unknown. So i too feel inexplicably drawn to big wall free climbing.

In reply to Kemics:

Yawn.....
Non-news, from mr James PR Pearson sponsored bu UKnonewsC

In reply to Gorilla:

So if UKC produces no-news why are you on here? It's easy to criticise, no?

Congratulations to James and Caroline on the ascent, looks like an awesome piece of rock!

I can also understand the appeal of really long multi-pitch/big wall climbing; it just has to be done one day!

In reply to Gorilla:

This is like saying that when Manchester United beat some 3rd division team in the FA cup no one wants to hear about it. Everyone who takes an interest in ManU will expect them to win, but they still want to hear that it happened.

Stop being so up your own arse.

In reply to Gorilla:

Yawn.....
Non-news, from mr James PR Pearson sponsored bu UKnonewsC

: )

In reply to crag_hopper_Jay:


I think perhaps one of the points being made is that the route was 3 pitches long. Great effort no doubt, but is it big walling? As in comparable to El Cap etc?

Quite good climber climbs someone else's route. Amazing.

The book's quite good though.

In reply to GDes:

It's not big walling. James says on his own blog that he wants to get into hard big walling, but needs to develop the skills first - hence the reasonably hard 3 pitch route.

In reply to NickD: Maybe they should've wrote a news story about your latest climb instead...

In reply to Fatboy: The site would grind to a halt.

In reply to Craig Smith:
I resist the Marmite analogy with Pearson - after all some people quite like Marmite.

In reply to hexcentric:

My, how bitter and nasty some of the climbers in the UK can be. Makes you proud to be a climber doesn't it. FFS.

In reply to hexcentric:

care to post your full name after making such derogatory remarks? tool.

In reply to hexcentric:

I suspect with comments like that, people are likely to start avoiding the marmite comparison with you as well.

In reply to Adam Lincoln:

Er, that comment wasn't from me BTW!!!! In fact I'm not quite sure what any of this has to do with Marmite. Can somebody please enlighten me?

In reply to GDes:

This has to be one of the least exciting headlines ever (let alone the grammar!) It might be a great route, desperate moves etc etc, but bigging up the fact that it has three pitches is pathetic. Are we really so focused on bouldering, headpointing and short sport that we are impressed by a route because it has more than one pitch?

In reply to Craig Smith:
Me I think.
It was a 'love or hate' reference but it was unfair.
Adam clearly likes him (cute) and seems he is the poster-boy for the hard-of-thinking. Other people think he is over-exposed, over-indulged and a bit annoying. But that is just life.