UKC

In reply to UKC News:

Anyone who's stood underneath this problem will know how hard it must be. Awesome effort.

NB I only started watching the video around 14 seconds in and thought he was climbing in only a T-shirt!

In reply to UKC News:

The video doesn't do justice to the steepness of the problem.

I seem to remember Malc saying when he climbed it that it was a funny problem. He'd been trying it on and off for ten years (and Andy Earl as well, I think). Yet it was such a short problem, he could see how someone else might turn up, do it first go and wonder what the fuss was about. So maybe not that odd that this problem has 7 repeats while Malc's other one, Leviathan, and Andy Earl's Prow have had so few (none?)

In reply to mav:
The Prow's had a few repeats I think. For example: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=64897

As an aside, it was well chalked up earlier in the year, it looked like someone had been getting close.

Monk life is one of the most unlikely looking boulder problems I've seen. When I pointed it out to my OH and said it went she thought I was taking the mick.

In reply to mav:
I got the impression from speaking to people that climbed with Malc that the whole 'ten year project' thing is exaggerated a bit, and it didn't take that long once he did start trying it in earnest.

Leviathan (and Lothlorian) hasn't had any repeats because it's at least a 9a traverse with loads of rules i.e. you'd only bother with it if you lived there, it was raining, and had done everything else at the crag.

The Prow is big enough to scare off most suitors.