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THE LOWDOWN: Frog prohpesies by Ghesquiers

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Yann Ghesquiers, 3 kbYann Ghesquiers, probably best known for having flashed an 8b+ slab pitch on Tough enough, a Multi-pitch on Madagascar I've got a feeling we'll here more about in the immediate future... anyway, 38 year old Yann has made the first ascent of La prophétie des grenouilles, at Rocher des Brunes,...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=58127
 tim carruthers 03 Oct 2010
In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:
Spelling and grammar checker broken, then?
 La benya 03 Oct 2010
In reply to tim carruthers:

im just guessing here, but i bet his english is ALOT better than your swedish/ norweigian/ finnish etc
 tim carruthers 03 Oct 2010
In reply to mark_wellin:
Well, since you mention it...
 flaneur 03 Oct 2010
In reply to mark_wellin:

You would lose your bet, with respect to etc. at least.

(And I am led to believe the UKC news editor is a native English speaker).
Fair enough. I guess I pushed the boundries of "artistic freedom" a wee bit too far then
DEvans 03 Oct 2010
In reply to Björn Pohl - UKC:

shall i be the first to talk about the actual climbing.

it's good and i think yann is a good climber too.

dan
 mrjonathanr 03 Oct 2010
In reply to DEvans:
I used to climb with him a fair bit. He's unbelievable. There are much stronger climbers about, but Yann just doesn't fall off.
DEvans 04 Oct 2010
In reply to mrjonathanr:

he is one of those climbers who has just been climbing unbeleiveably well for years and years.

is he a nice guy?

 mrjonathanr 04 Oct 2010
In reply to DEvans:

Very. Quiet, unassuming, friendly. Just doesn't fall off much!
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