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New Route on the Highest Vertical Sea Cliff in Britain

Derren Fox, Ross Jones, Les Gorham and Iain Millar have added a new route to the highest vertical cliff in Britain. Testement to the Insane, XS 5b, is over 450m long and has 14 pitches. The route was climbed in a single 26 hour push with a short bivvy during darkness. A 8m leader fall was taken on pitch 8 and one point of aid used on lead, the pitch was then free climbed at 5b by the 2nd. Rock quality is in general poor but the location and the atmosphere is truly outstanding, an adventurous and serious route.

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28 Jul, 2004
Excellent! Just goes to show that there are still reasonably graded big adventures around. Well done! Bob
28 Jul, 2004
Good effort - nice to know people are still getting things done up there.
28 Jul, 2004
Nice one!
1 Aug, 2004
Quality stuff! Certainly beats people claiming new sit-starts at Burbage etc... Heh!
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