In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:
> (In reply to Monk)
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> You keep hearing this. This so-called 'expectation'.
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> Before Team America came over, very few UK climbers had heard of Kevin Jorgeson, Alex Honnold and Matt Segal ...
But Mick, don't you think it's not unreasonable to have a sort of "retro-expectation". Knowing
now just how strong these 3 guys are, you wouldn't be surprised to have them succeed on some of our hardest routes. The fact that a fair few of these routes are almost high-ball problems (to them), doesn't take anything away from their achievements, but I would like to have seen them on
TWOL or come up for a play on
Echo Wall. To me, that would be much more impressive, but just for different reasons.
Makes you wonder just how many unknown climbers there are out there, just off the radar, sending very hard routes.