Just two hours flight away from the diminutive gritstone edges of the Peaks District are Northern Italy's granite paradises of Valle dell' Orco and Val di Mello. Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall have just had a two week rampage of new routes and hard repeats there - showing those damn Euros how to climb cracks. Pete established perhaps one of the very best offwidth roofs in the world and Tom got the coveted third ascent of Greenspit. But that's only part of the story.
Full report, with videos, photos and an interview.
Funny ya should ax. Uh bad ass mama iz uh gat toting bad ho. I hope dat explains things. Particulary relevent when discussing da crack habit an dat boil on mah ass.
In reply to UKC News: According to Rockfax conversion chart, F8b+ would be E9. But F8b+ sounds a bit harsh considering it is such a good line and has only had 3 ascents.
Ackbar05 Aug 2009
In reply to Ackbar: Oh, and before anyone says anything, he did say the good people on UKC could decide on the grade
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