My First Outdoor Lead (48) - Park Nab
The awe grew, a shiver of determination, summoned by the unadulterated fear, rushed through my body like morphine... The gear was by my feet. Would it hold? I was certain of a fall, I was imagining the description of the route in the next guide book - follow the trail of brown. This pushed me further, then the clasping hand of an infant was seen to grasp the summit of the monumental line. Then another hand, followed by a head and a mantle-shelf. A foot, and then the entire body, was on the rock above. It was over, but this, the fear, the torment, the closeness to death, was only the beginning.
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Franco Cookson's first lead here:
http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=574
In reply to Jack Geldard - Assistant Editor: twas a grand first lead. the pic shows a slightly hard HVS at the same crag-park nab. its in the NE england climbing book.
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