Why is it so hard for the authors of such things to get some of the nuts and bolts (so to speak) of climbing a new E9 right? Surely this isn’t the best that can be done?
It scraped the ethics in a way, unless you were a climber I doubt you'd understand the controversy of placing a bolt to tame a route and bring it down to your level.
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This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...
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