Andy Earl Climbs Beautiful New 8B in Northumberland

Mick Ryan

28th June, 2007

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Andy Earl has climbed a stunningly beautiful and hard new boulder problem at Shaftoe Crags in Northumberland (crag details here).

Andy wrote:

"Well after a week of really funny weather I have been lucky to be trying the fastest drying bloc in Northumberland, I did the stand up two weeks ago and thinking it might go from a sitter"

Indeed it did, on Sunday 24th June. He has christened the problem, Blood Sport and proposed a grade of Font 8b. It is located on Turtle Rock.

You can see sequence photos of Blood Sport at Andy's blog: earl-andrewearl.blogspot.com

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GDes

28 Jun, 2007

Good effort. It's an amazing line.

Richard Bradley

28 Jun, 2007

Out of interest, which are the hardest standing start problems in the uk and the world?

GDes

28 Jun, 2007

Monk Life at Kyloe In must be one of them

philo

28 Jun, 2007

this recent publicity will make a once quiet and beautiful spot the plantation!

Michael Ryan

28 Jun, 2007

Close down the internet, burn all the magazine HQ's and the printing plants, throw away your mobile, tape up everyone's mouth and cut their hands off so that they can't even write, ban professional climbers, murder all the climbing journalists, books on the bonfire, put your TV on the dump....... You hung the holds Philo: http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/philoo/?action=view&current=Photo-0101newest.jpg But did you do the problem?

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