In reply to satnav09:
> Loads of us have headpointed that route, with full time jobs, weak arms, average technique, rubbish diets etc.
Has anyone done it as their first route on grit though? That seems to be the newsworthy bit for me.
It's also an interesting because he's small and Gaia is meant to be quite a bit harder for short climbers, english 7a I think people used to say. So it was interesting to see the ease with which he did the crux.
And the fact that he is a predominantly indoor, competition climber and able to effortlessly transfer those skills to a very bold, hard grit, trad route. In general I'm interested just to know what things top foreign climbers get up to when visiting this country too.