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NEWS: New Scottish Big Wall E4 in Siberia

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 UKC News 16 Sep 2015
A plastered tent..., 4 kbScottish duo Simon Smith and Graham Dawson have just returned from a recently discovered granite massif in the Chuvan mountains in Chukotka, North Eastern Russia - coming away with the first ascent of a 300m E4 named Ilium. After a "hair-raising" approach on quad and dirt bikes, the first British expedition to the area encountered wild stormy weather and the unseasonably early onset of winter, plastering the walls in snow and ice.

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 Brian Pollock 16 Sep 2015
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Looks mental. Great effort.
 Niall Grimes 16 Sep 2015

Looks like fun.
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pasbury 16 Sep 2015
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Well if you will go to Siberia...
 Jack Geldard 16 Sep 2015
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Looks great - would love to find out more about the area - the rock looks really good!

Well done!

J
 CragRat11 16 Sep 2015
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Nice one Dawson, and Simon!

Looks like good crack.

Catch you at some point.

Dom
 Robert Durran 16 Sep 2015
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Nice one Simon! Sounds a bit mad. Glad it worked out.
 Michael Gordon 16 Sep 2015
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Great stuff. Sounds like a proper adventure
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Looks amazing! Good effort!
 Matt_b 17 Sep 2015
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Superb. Looks like a great place for an adventure.

I managed to get some info from this page on the area:

http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews1.lasso?l=2&keyid=42...

The team mentioned in the link above, appeared to be the first team to climb there? For them it must have been a slightly nervous trip as to whether these walls really existed. I put the given coordinates into Google Earth and it doesn't seem to hint at any evidence of big walls.
 Damo 17 Sep 2015
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> The team mentioned in the link above, appeared to be the first team to climb there? For them it must have been a slightly nervous trip as to whether these walls really existed. I

Warner is a mate of mine. Yes, they were the first climbers there. He'd seen a photo here from a non-climbing Russian friend, so knew there were walls there, just not sure how big and what the rock was like.
 beardy mike 17 Sep 2015
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> I put the given coordinates into Google Earth

I just did that too - damn talk about the arse end of nowhere! Some of the pictures of Bilibno are a real treat...
 Valaisan 17 Sep 2015
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Nails.
 Fraser 17 Sep 2015
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Nice work guys, I'd been thinking only the other day I'd not heard anything about how you'd got on. Looks immense, glad to hear it all worked out safely.
 Neil Adams 18 Sep 2015
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Nice one Simon!
 Dancingbear 26 Sep 2015
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Thanks guys. Yeah shitty and cold in Siberia, who woulda thunk it......

* For the record: I aint Scottish! Just masquerading.....

Si
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