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Bristol-based climbers Cailean Harker and Ben West have made ascents of two steep and rarely climbed F8a+ sport climbs in Swanage in the same weekend

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In reply to UKC News:

I for one think this is flippin great news, i've belayed a mate up Infinite gravity and the line is the most awesome thing i've seen. Yeah it's a sport route, but it's an adventure across the sea to the back of the cave just to get to it and the unrelenting overhang is tiring to look at. Plus the sheer amount of effort required to get up and down it means it has to be sent first go on the day. Don't forget the ridiculous exposure which is one of the wildest in Swanage and that most of the early holds are permanently wet. To send Palace on the same weekend, beasts!

Inspiring stuff!

In reply to UKC News:

lovely to hear of this twin ascent achievement being reported on the front page as 'news'. What a sterling effort by the pair of Bristol guys. Well done yous.
It's great to read that Pete Oxley's efforts of what, two decades past ? are heralded as news worthy. Oxley's legacy is a huge fore sight of its time. Brilliant to read.

I was an innocent bye stander, to witness to the ascent of Palace and did also by coincidence witness some of his effort on the freeing of Procrastinating Giant, which forms the other route?? well done guys in dragging the notoriety of these routes to the fore. I trust is was great fun for you both.