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The North Face athletes James Pearson and Gaz Parry, with some friends, are on a European road trip. 40 days of climbing, socialising with the European climbing community, giving climbing Masterclasses and slideshows at various climbing walls, and taking in the sights and culture. They will be visiting 20 different climbing venues and climbing 20 of Europe's best 8a's.

So far they have climbed Adrenochrome at Lulworth Cove, Dorset, Raindogs at Malham Cove, North Yorkshire, Abstrakt at Hylteberget, one of Sweden's first 8a's. They have now left Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark and are heading to a climbing event in Holland then on to Freyr in Belgium to climb God Save The Queen, 8a.

Watch the VIDEO http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=46894

In reply to UKC News:
Christ that one in sweden must be hard, it makes James go all limp wristed on the way down!!

In reply to UKC News:
Awesome.
After this an 8a routes and Font8A boulder problem a day for 20 days...........
James

In reply to james oswald:


Now that would be something!

In reply to UKC News:
The route at the end of that video looks great and I don't think I've ever seen James Pearson climb sport before!

In reply to AndyM-LVB:


You mean the one in Sweden? It looks a good crag doesn't it.

I think sport climbing on granite can be great - most of the sport climbing I do is on granite just because that it what most of the local rock is. When I lived in the UK I normally associated sport climbing with limestone, which has always been my least favourite rock. So it's nice to sport climb on different rock types.

There is lots of granite sport in Scandinavia - but I wonder where else you find it? Sardinia? Bit around Chamonix I guess? Probably some places in the States?

In reply to TobyA: Sardinia granite sports climbing - see http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=348570&v=1#x5123384

In reply to Morgan Woods:
>if Orange Mechanique is on the menu.

which i should add is in Cimai.

In reply to UKC News: Just got back from Corsica, plenty of excellent granite sport climbing there - I find it more interesting than limestone cranking. (Though some exceptions like Kalymnos spring to mind...)

In reply to TobyA:

Hong Kong