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Boswell and Sim - The GatheringVideo

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27th January, 2012

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Stuck at work? Want to get psyched for the weekend? Here's a short film of Greg Boswell and Will Sim climbing the second ascent of The Gathering, (VIII,9), Coire an Lochain, Cairngorms.

The film was this project was a 50/50 collaboration between Justin Tracey of Reeltime Adventure and Jenny Crook - thanks for sending it in Jenny! And great work on the film Justin!

A photo of the guys in action on this route was voted 'photo of the week' last week on UKClimbing.com - here it is:

Second Accent of the route,Will Sim leading the second Pitch The Gathering . What a day. © REELTIME ADVENTURE — Second Accent of the route,Will Sim leading the second Pitch The Gathering . What a day.
Justin Tracey, Jan 2012
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And another photo of the guys came second! Here it is:

Second Accent of the route, Greg Boswell on the first pitch and Will Sim lead the second pitch. What a day. © REELTIME ADVENTURE — Second Accent of the route, Greg Boswell on the first pitch and Will Sim lead the second pitch. What a day.
Justin Tracey, Jan 2012
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You can look at the top ten photos here.

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Comments

27 Jan, 2012

Nice one Jen.

27 Jan, 2012

It's amazing how fluidly they climb. (although it's good to see even the pros use a cheeky knee occasionally!)

27 Jan, 2012

im psyched!!!

27 Jan, 2012

45! Was lucky enough to watch some of their ascent from the belay, very impressive stuff.

27 Jan, 2012

i blame that on all the silly dry tooling boswell does.

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