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We were trying to think of some of those leftfield things that been done on crags/routes or in the mountains similar to Little Chamonix in Boxing Gloves and rollerskates...we managed a fairly short list...Any recollections to get added to it?

In reply to simondgee:

Plenty of routes done naked, giving a whole new meaning to the terms "helmet protection","nut key" and "rope length".

Pretty sure someone took a piano to the top of Ben Nevis but I might have dreamt that.

I watched Tim Emmett climb a route at the Beacon with his leg in plaster but not sure if that counts?

Then there's the infamous video made by Paul Kaye about "clucking" and you'll need to google it but it IS NOT WORKSAFE!

In reply to Removed User:

FA of Crazy Streak at Gull Rock on the Culm by Gordon Jenkin and myself.

Then there's the (apocryphal?) story of John (Zeke) Deacon cleaning off loose holds on the FA of Death Rattle Gulch at Lands End with a .38 revolver.

In reply to simondgee:

Alex Macintyre's winter ascent of Clacaig gully with a knife and fork (from the bar), for a bet.

In reply to:
30 years of climbing and I have neer seen or heard of 'Strutter' Paul Kaye or the clucking video...just watched it The making of clip' ...classic!...My Wednesday has started on high with a delayed sexual liberation...'clucking paul kaye and video' as you you NWS

Its funny this thing with streaking up routes, It is one that happens (or more to the point seemed to happen more)...thats how streaky got his name (on Middle Fell Buttress on Raven)...and it does seem to male dominated activity.

Iain, do you know If John is still around would love to find out more on that one?

In reply to simondgee: Didn't Al Harris climb Zukator (I think)at Tremadoc in winkle picker shoes.

Al

In reply to Removed User:


Elliot's Downfall (are the pics still in the Clachaig bar?) http://www.clachaig.com/upload/activity/nakedrickonelliotsdownf.jpg

In reply to Gaston Rubberpants:
Seems that was another one of those that was a trend (the shoes and climbing in them) Dennis Peare told me of his ascents with Paul Ross when they would solo up and down the likes of Devils Wedge in Winkle Pickers to impress the girls. Of all routes...

In reply to simondgee:
Not much madness on the grit then so far?

In reply to simondgee:

john Redhead leading on the slate with rope around his 'junk'

In reply to Gaston Rubberpants:

Didn't Al Harris climb Zukator (I think)at Tremadoc in winkle picker shoes

Yes, he said that he could wear winkle pickers to second anything that Crew had led. He also wore a cow gown.

In reply to simondgee:

Martin Crocker doing a First Ascent somewhere in Mid-Wales, with an umberalla taped to his head - it was raining at the time...

Crocker again, deep/shallow water soloing of new routes at Ogmore with some kiddies inflatable water wings tied around his waist.

In reply to Mark Bull:

Definitely good advice to keep out from the rock, though at that temperature presumably not that far.

In reply to simondgee:

When Pat Littlejohn first tried "A Bigger Splash" at Ogmore, he did so solo and with a weight belt (he was trying to get fit after an injury). He got half way and decided it wasn't a good idea and jetisoned it. He later did the FA with ropes.

In reply to simondgee:

Somebody (Nipper Harrison?) bicycled down the oft graffitied slab opposite the main wall area in Avon. I forget what happened when he reached the bottom.

In reply to simondgee:

Didn't steve Haston 'borrow' cutlery from Petes Eats to protect Comes the Dervish ?

Dawes soloing Downhill racer one handed

In reply to GrahamD:

Didn't steve Haston 'borrow' cutlery from Petes Eats to protect Comes the Dervish ?

Think he used said cutlery to clean the route, not protect it.

...no pantomime horse yet? hmm looks like we are safe

In reply to simondgee: I saw some lads about 2 years ago descending the Idwal Slabs at a great rate of knots on a silver tea tray! Looked good fun if a little hairbrained. Sorry but no photos.

In reply to simondgee:

Alec Sharp is supposed to have lead Vector in Platform Shoes.

There is a cool picture on the front cover of an early eighties edition of Clogwyn (The Journal of Bangor University Mountaineering Society) of a guy cycling up Lord of the Flies. The caption says: Come on Pedals do your stuff!

In reply to Removed User:

Agghhh God, made the mistake of having a mouthful of coffee part way through "Ze c*ck is coming!". New keyboard please.

In reply to simondgee:

I once climbed a route wearing..ahem..Ron Hills

In reply to Bulls Crack:

I once climbed a route wearing..ahem..Ron Hills

That's nothing, Ron Fawcwett climbed some of his hardest routes wearing HanWags...

In reply to MJ: ... and thick red woolly socks! What was that all about?

In reply to simondgee:

I remember reading on here years ago that somebody had ridden a bike down Heart of the Sun at Baggy Point! It seems rather hard to believe though, presumably they were attached to a rope! God knows, there's some utter maniacs out there.

Didn't Readhead knock one out at the top of Salisbury cathedral after soloing it, or some such?

Perrin soloing Corrie on coke?

In reply to simondgee: Green, or is it Great Slab at Milstone was skateboarded down.

Keith Myhill top roped Goblins Eye Roof at Almscliffe on a bike (spoof publicity shot actually), and Wee Doris at Stoney was climbed naked on a number of occasions.

And didn't someone glue a load of bolt hangers up the Vector Headwall next to Strawberries in the 80's, as a wheeze?

I remember three of us doing Erosion Groove on the Wasted at about midnight, after a serious night on the ale in the Vaynol - somehow we got up it, and back down unscathed!!!!

And of course, seeing how far and quickly you could 'run' up the Idwall Slabs (no hands allowed) was always fun - I think pitch 3 of hope in under 3 minutes was the record.

In reply to simondgee: Not bizarre but impressive. I watched Ed Stone down climb axle attack taking his gear out on the way.

In reply to Goucho:


unroped ?

In reply to Removed User:

See http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=452024

Of that series; Sperm Warfare is by far the funniest

In reply to Captain Gear:


I'll ask him.

In reply to simondgee:

Johnny Dawes at rockcity in Hull, only in rollerskates though.

youtube.com/watch?v=n3etXIRf6a8&

In reply to simondgee:

During the 1920s/30s wasn't Lockwood's Chimney traditionally climbed at night in diner jackets after a good diner at the PYG?

In reply to lithos: Of course

In reply to Goucho:

Bwa ha ha ha!

*goes off to buy a load of bolt hangers and blu-tack for his next trip to the grit*

Of course the real fun would come if someone didn't notice they were fake and tried climbing on them...

In reply to Trangia: preferably by a large and incompetant party, according to the older guidebooks!

In reply to johncook: "A large party of large men" is how I remember it...

In reply to simondgee: dont know if this would count but we spent 3 days and nights trapped by rain at the small tarn under the great stone shoot on Alastair in the Cuillins,when it stopped for a couple of hrs we climbed the Stone shoot in long johns ,vests and big boots got to the top at 9,at night and wondered what the press would have had to say if we had had to be rescued ....oh and it rained as we came down ..

In reply to victorclimber: Got to ask, but how can you be trapped by rain for 3 days and nights in a location like that???????????

In reply to Captain Gear:


I asked Alec tonight, and he did indeed lead Vector in platform soled boots - the type with a zip in the side. He remembers leading the main pitch, but not sure if he lead or followed the last...

In reply to MJ:

Think there was talk of placing a nut key as a marginal runner on the run out start?