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NEWS: 8b Redpoint & 8a Onsight for 16 yr Old Ellis Butler-Barker

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 UKC News 05 Mar 2014
Ellis enjoying warm rock in El Chorro, 4 kb16 year old Team GB member, Ellis Butler-Barker, has just returned from a very successful trip to El Chorro where he onsighted two 8a's and redpointed Trango, 8b. Ellis was out in El Chorro with fellow 16 year old Charlotte Warner who climbed her first 7c with Talmania...

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 hms 05 Mar 2014
In reply to UKC News:

Actually she climbed El Chocco (7c) at Brean in October.

Why didn't they manage to get to Makinodromo, btw?
 JayK 05 Mar 2014
In reply to UKC News:
The route in the picture is Talibania - not Talmania isn't it?

It's graded 8a in the Rockfax Chorro guide with a very dubious topo. It's obviously incorrect. The route is a very cruxy 7c - a 7a jug romp start up the corner of the medias cave to an awkward crux in the top groove just below the huge bull ring lower chain. Nothing hard is added between the two chains.

If I remember the correct route.

Great effort on Trango! That bit of rock looks immense.

I wish I was in Spain....
Post edited at 14:27
 IainWhitehouse 05 Mar 2014
In reply to hms:

Indeedy, this was Charlotte's second 7c - maybe they got confused because it was her first this year??
pugwash 06 Mar 2014
In reply to IainWhitehouse:

Not the only confusion:

Is he on the GB team?

Is he not 17?

Impressive achievements nonetheless, but inaccurate reporting spoils it.
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