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In this week's Friday Night Video, Liam Hutchinson treats us to a tour around Yorkshire's finest highball bouldering, hard test pieces and new climbs...

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You made Pigeon look a hell of a lot harder than it actually is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7kYmrJsofU&ab_channel=simes303

I really enjoyed your film, thank you. Si.

It was my mate who climbed Pigeon in the video. Considering it's the first high thing he's ever done without a rope, I thought his ascent was very impressive. It's definitely more of a solo than a highball, the landing is terrible and you really wouldn't want to fall off. Where his foot slipped I'm not sure I would have stayed on in the same position, so I think he did well managing to keep composed and continue to the top. 

Thanks for watching and the feedback!

Pigeon has a really good large rock placement halfway up, as in my clip above, although it's after the crux stretch, and if you've decided to solo then that's obviously irrelevant. That was a fantastic day for me. After Pigeon, I onsighted The Blood On The Shamrock and Ginny Greenteeth. Days when you feel so confident like like that are very rare.

As I said, it's a really enjoyable film, thank you for sharing it.

Si.