In reply to jon:
Ah, I thought this might cause a bit of upset.
There seems to be this notion that because certain soft touch grit E8s (End of the affair, Gaia etc) get
headpointed by every man and his dog, that the same goes for on-sighting grit E7?
There are a few routes (e.g. Strangeness at Caley, Mind bomb at Ilkley, Kaluza Klein) which have seen this treatment, but it's still a rare occurence.
Believe me, I would have said 'flash' if it was a flash. If Nic has watched Hard Grit properly, then he certainly was putting on a good display of knowing bugger all about what the moves are.
The reason the news story is there is because I was holding the ropes. This style of ascent (i.e. ground up, 1 fall) of a proper grit E7 deserves a mention.