Jacob Cook links some hard and bold climbing on the front face of the Cow at Ilkley.
"I first tried it 4 months ago, a few days after doing the New Statesman. Basically I got on it because I'm not strong enough to do the crux of Gerty Berwick and wanted to find another way up the wall!"
"it's called the Lizard King. Partly as a Jim Morrison tribute and partly to draw attention to the fact that many of the current world leaders are actually Lizards. "
Did somebody miss the winky sign off the end here?
Looks a great pitch as indeed the others do. What is the line of ripples below and left of the finish - they appear to have chalk on them... or am I imagining it?
That's Cow Udder - an E1, it just follows a line of chipped holds. No gear until you're very high up and covered in pigeon shit as you approach the ledge!
When the local council decided to cover over graffiti along the bottom of the Cow by painting the bottom 3 meters of the crag battleship grey the grade seemed to go up a bit.
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