Pete Robins - Isles of Wonder - 8BVideo

18th September, 2012

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Pete Robins on Isles of Wonder - Font 8B - Ogwen Valley © DMM — Pete Robins on Isles of Wonder - Font 8B - Ogwen Valley
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Just over a month ago, North Wales based climber Pete Robins made the first ascent of Isles of Wonder in the Ogwen Valley. This steep boulder problem is graded Font 8B and sits on the hillside close to the small crag of Carreg Mianog.

Here's the video of the first ascent, courtesy of DMM in which Pete climbs the problem (which is very steep, so stays quite dry in the rain) but has to battle hard with the soaking wet 5c top-out.

Well done Pete!

To find out more about Pete Robins, check out this in depth interview and profile - Meet Pete Robins

For more information on Pete's ascent of this problem, check out the DMM News Item.

Pete Robins is sponsored by DMM , Five Ten , prAna and Podsacs

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Wft

18 Sep, 2012

really nice video and a great problem

johncoxmysteriously

19 Sep, 2012

But am I the only one who watches these films of multiple failures over multiple sessions followed by a single success and thinks: "Well done, mate, but did you finally just get lucky? Can you claim you have really mastered a problem unless you can do it first try every try?" No, not at all - John Gill always used to stress the same point. Although mind you his view is not terribly fashionable, as far as I can tell. jcm

AJM

19 Sep, 2012

As he says, it took him 4 of the sessions or whatever to figure out the moves. That's not a matter of luck or lack of luck, it's a matter of puzzle-solving. And anything that's hard for you has to involve some sort of low percentage move, like that compression slap for the crimp, if every move were high percentage then it would be easy! I'm not sure I get the idea of mastering a problem, it sounds very newspaper-esque "conquering a mountain" style language to me. You can either climb it or you can't, and if you can climb it at once you have ascended it, and if you can repeat it every time then it's clearly an easy problem for you with no low percentage moves on it. Anyway, it looks awesome, some really cool moves...

AJM

19 Sep, 2012

"climb it once", not "climb it at once" in the second paragraph! One word, big meaning change :)

john arran

19 Sep, 2012

I don't want to Master a route or problem, I want to Climb it. And when I've climbed it I don't want to spend more time Mastering it, I want to Climb another one. And so it goes on. John Gill was in many ways a performance artist and as a result he had a very different approach to and goals for his climbing than most of us. I don't see perfection as any great virtue unless it's crucial to succeed on the hardest things I'm able to do. If I scratch my way up something I'll try to learn from it but rarely will I feel any desire to repeat something again and again unless it's purely for the joy of the climbing.

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