UKC

5th ascent by Mr Nic Sellers on Saturday.

"Not traumatic at all, in fact quite a pleasant outing".

In a day (3 hours actually), F8a and reasonably well-protected were the thoughts of the typically understated Sellers. I'm sure the newswire will have picked this up... 'Local News'?

In reply to Tom Briggs:
What was the grade? (before Nic Sellers ascent)

In reply to martin heywood: Used to be E9 7a, I think Caf suggested E8 though.

In reply to Tom Briggs: Thanks Tom,

Now on the news page: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/older.html?month=07&year=2008#n45062

Jack

In reply to Tom Briggs:

3 hours to climb about 40 feet? That's even slower than me. And as UKC news, says it took Hans Florine and Yuji Hirayama 2hrs and 47 minutes to climb The Nose the other day.

In reply to Eric Herring:

That's different and irrelevant.

Sounds like a good effort on Nic's part to me.

In reply to Removed User:

But funny all the same.

In reply to Removed User:

<woosh>

hear that?

it was the sound of humour going straight over your head.

In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:

yeah, I guess.

In reply to Removed User:

almost as funny as this..the Johnny Bumblie Man one

"Gosh that was Hard Very Difficult, Twelve - M. Gosh! That route Hubble is only Six-M"

http://www.rockfax.com/publications/pdfs/johnnies.pdf

In reply to Morgan Woods:

I think it just caught me in a grumpy mood.

In reply to Removed User:

nae bother :p

In reply to Morgan Woods:

Exactly.

PS Hi Morgan

In reply to Tom Briggs: Who placed the peg and why?

In reply to aln: Adam Wainright placed the peg. Why? I guess because he wanted a runner!

Jack

In reply to Eric Herring: are you the same eric herring who made house mix tapes for folk a good while back?

In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com: how hard is it to place this peg? I remember reading something that said it would be almost impossible to place onsight, so isn't it even harder than E9?

In reply to Franco Cookson:

Isn't it the wire that's hard to place?

In reply to Queequeg: sorry, meant wire.

In reply to andi turner:
3 hours? Maybe this is par for the course then for Britains best climbers(as opposed to most publicised). Even so sounds like an exceptional effort.

In reply to Franco Cookson:

Not almost impossible - see Committed. I think the difficulty in placcing the gear is part of the grade.

Good work Mr Sellars (what's the correct spelling btw, I have seen both).
Good pedigree always shines through.

In reply to Chris F:

Sellers!

In reply to Erik B:

Yup, the same: where did you know the tapes from? I was called out of DJing retirement for a new night in Bristol, and it was fun but too time consuming on top of all my other commitments so I dropped out of it, permanently this time. Great days but I am now part of the post-clubbing generation...