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FRI NIGHT VID: Pablo - Looking for France's best 8a climb

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 UKC News 23 Jun 2023

This week's Friday Night Video takes us to France, where Pablo Recourt has set himself the challenge of finding the country's best 8a route.

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 teddy 23 Jun 2023
In reply to UKC News:

Nice looking video - one small thing. In the title, the climb should be 8a not 8A as the latter denotes a boulder problem and the former a route. 

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 Ed Booth 26 Jun 2023
In reply to UKC News:

Weren’t many climbs shown . 
mid the first climb shown, the one in the screen grab pic at Claret ? 

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 john arran 26 Jun 2023
In reply to UKC News:

That video is so French!

If it was a British climber (or German I think, or indeed most nationalities) it would be structured to show where he went, which crags, which routes, and it would end up with a decision as to which of the routes he felt were the best.

As it is, he doesn't say where he gets to, mentions only one route that I noticed (which rather pleased me as it's one of the few 8as that I've onsighted!) and spends most of his time talking about how he feels.

It's a nice looking video, but from my British climber perspective I'd really like to have more nuts and bolts!

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 Luke90 26 Jun 2023
In reply to teddy:

> Nice looking video - one small thing. In the title, the climb should be 8a not 8A as the latter denotes a boulder problem and the former a route. 

UKC don't control the title of the video, it's just embedded from YouTube.

 teddy 27 Jun 2023
In reply to john arran:

The title was changed by UKC from 8A to 8a a few days ago so Im not sure what you mean? The title in the Youtube video is 8a not 8A. 

 Luke90 27 Jun 2023
In reply to teddy:

Ah, they must have changed the UKC title already by the time I first saw it so I assumed you were talking about the title of the video on YouTube, which still shows as "8A" for me.


 mrjonathanr 28 Jun 2023
In reply to john arran:

> It's a nice looking video, but from my British climber perspective I'd really like to have more nuts and bolts!

No bolts please; we’re British.

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 francois 28 Jun 2023
In reply to john arran:

Actually, the guy is climbing in France but he is a Belgian climber. But I agree with the general sentiment, it's refreshing to see a climber focusing on other aspects beyond climbing. 

 Toccata 29 Jun 2023
In reply to UKC News:

The route at Le Boffi looked immense. I agree that the view is 'Incredible'.


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