Murdoch Jamieson and John Orr have just made the FWA of The Route of All Evil, a summer E2 on Beinn Eighe. They graded the route IX,8 for a winter ascent.
Murdoch then headed back in with Iain Small a couple of days later and made the 2nd ascent of Vishnu at VII,7.
Murdoch, are you selling out to the media circus now? Front cover of Climber and a fully branded roadshow to follow, tho I think you will need to have more than a flickr link in your profile!!
I find thing sort of thing really, really impressive. Having climbed the route during last summer's drought and found it decidedly intimidating and testing for E2, I struggle to get my head round this winter ascent. Awesome! Incidentally, the summer line traverses left (in a typically improbable Beinn Eighe way) several metres below the roof into a hidden crack line.
And this was from a man who a couple of years ago asked a couple of old boys how did they manage to climb grade VII's and VIII's when he was only doing V's and VI's
> And this was from a man who a couple of years ago asked a couple of old boys how did they manage to climb grade VII's and VIII's when he was only doing V's and VI's
And what was your presumably wise answer? (it baffles me how so many people manage to climb big grades in winter!)
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