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George Carmichael - Mecca 8b+, 55 kb

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This week's Friday Nighter is from Patrick Taylor.

He introduces his video on Vimeo: "A video short of George Carmichael climbing the Raven Tor classic 'Mecca'. A short and very powerful route, George had roughly six sessions before climbing the 8b+ test piece. [ full story ]

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