In reply to Michael Gordon:
> "Rhapsody is hard, it’s really hard in fact, and a giant step up from any Trad route I have done before."
> Now why couldn't he have said that (or something similar) before?
I'd always assumed that from a primarily bouldering and short route background he just didn't have a full appreciation of how the whole route would add up based on what I seem to recall was a fairly short time spent working on the moves. Didn't he say as much about Walk of Life in the end, that he just wasn't comfortable on that sort of route and so completely misinterpreted the overall difficulty?
We all have our prisms that we see things through, whether we are strong, fit, overly used to one sort of climbing, and so on.
> Very well done to James on this repeat, and for admitting past errors.
Yes, I think it's been very impressive the way he has taken one on the chin (rhapsody/walk of life/promise etc), gone away, worked out "why" he ended up in that situation, fixed it, and has now come back completely reinvented. Lots of people would have just slunk off and kept working on things they could do rather than taking on the challenge of getting better at the things they couldn't.