It began for me in 2005, with my first ever outdoor lead climb. This is not a description of an epic first ascent or even a speedy repeat of a super hard test piece; it's simply a personal account about climbing iconic gritstone routes.
24 year-old Sam Hamer writes about completing the list of Top 50 climbs from the 2001 Rockfax Eastern Grit guide - an achievement which was 10 years in the making.
I thought this journey was going to start with Flying Buttress (the vdiff, not the Direct) and make its way slowly through Black Hawk Hell, Crack and Corner to Manchester Buttress, Inverted V and the Black Slab. Instead I find the author doing his first lead on a climb harder than I've led in my first two years. Very boring. I'd be more interested to read about climbers getting sandbagged by Right Hand Trinity.
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Fri Night Vid Ethan Pringle on one of Portugal's Hardest Sport Climb
In this week's Friday Night Video, we follow Ethan Pringle to the 'not-yet-popular' but world-class sport crag of Meio Mango in Portugal. In the film, Ethan attempts one of the country's hardest lines, Filipinos, which was first...