In reply to johncoxmysteriously:
> ...I never even noticed the celebrated 'mantelshelf' move. I just climbed up using the holds with hands and feet on them...
Almost '...with hands and feet and heart.' Très Drummondesque (as we say in Barnoldswick).
Umm... you traverse right on the second pitch, don't you, then go up a little scoop, as I seem to remember from 39 1/2 years ago. I think there was a bit of a mantleshelf somewhere around (at the top of?) the scoop. But it wasn't the grit full-on monte where you have no choice but to get stuck in. You could sort of scamper upwards.
First time around, the wind was whirling all over the face, inciting one to swift upward progress. Next time around, a few years later, with my mate Wino, after a protracted lunchtime session with Tim Lewis in The Padarn... I was totally bladdered and can't remember much at all.
We had a great afternoon though, cruising those routes on the main face. When Wino had had enough, I carried on soloing. As we were about to go, somebody came across and, very respectfully, asked, "Are you Pete Boardman?" At this, Wino cracked up and leered evilly, "Jimmy f*cking Clitheroe, more like!" The poor guy looked totally bemused. I struggled to keep a straight face.
Innocent fun - courtesy of Arthur Birtwistle's legacy to all of us.
Mick