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A forum post recently cropped up featuring a video of 13 year-old Jacob Hadley cruising up My Halo E7 6b in the Dinorwig Slate Quarries back in May this year. What's more, he described the route as "soft"! It's unusual to see such a young climber going for hard trad ascents, so we thought we'd ask Jacob a few questions about his climbing and motivations.

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I think I met Jacob at Bus stop quarry on the day he led Equinox, I was learning to use a shunt on Fools Gold.
I seem to remember his mate had to leave early to continue working on a painting he’d started, so I gave him a belay on a couple of the easy sports climbs behind the pinnacle.
I distinctly remember his mate saying to watch out for Jacob’s name appearing in the press because he was going to be very good; low and behold he was right.

What a great little story to feature on UKC.

In reply to UKC Articles:

Great interview!

In reply to SGD:

no way yea i think it was you! did you get 1000 tons done?

In reply to JSH:

Hiya Jacob

No I never did get on it - yet another one to go back for.

Great to hear you are doing so well - keep on crushin!