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We've had a quick chat with James McHaffie and managed to tease his summer ticklist out of him. He has done quite a few hard routes!

How many E7s have you onsighted this year? Probably not as many as James...

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In reply to UKC News:

A true climber's climber, along with Dan McManus and Tony Stone among others. Outstanding stuff.

Never thought I'd ask this type of question but- what is ground-up no falls?

In reply to GuyVG:

The only thing I can think of is it means he just lowered off rather than fell off

In reply to Michael Gordon:

...or climbed back down.

In reply to Paul Phillips - UKC and UKH:


I hope not, I might have to reclassify some of my on sights!

In reply to GuyVG:

I will ask him!

J

In reply to UKC News:

Absolute legend already, really inspiring stuff.

And hopefully a strong ethical inspiration to all those people who take the hollow challenge-avoiding option of headpointing mid-grade stuff without even trying it properly. Or are even thinking about doing that - don't, look at what Caff does and try to think of the onsighting possibilities for yourselves...

In reply to Fiend:
Waddage!

In reply to UKC News:

What a legend!

In reply to UKC News:

I'm surprised how many of those routes aren't in the UKC database. Come on crag moderators, pull your socks up!

In reply to ben.phillips:

Come on Ben Phillips, start adding them yourself!

In reply to UKC News:

I would but my knowledge of E7 routes is somewhat limited...

In reply to UKC News:

Has onsighted 8b in Cyprus too.

In reply to UKC News:

The man's a total legend !!!

In reply to GuyVG:

I imagine that Ground up no falls is where the route in questions is a variation of another route, which if climbed prior to attempting the route in question, would lead to an ascent that isn't an onsight and also not a headpoint?

In reply to UKC News:

Well done James, Awesome CV mate !!!

In reply to brices:

Or if you've watched someone else climbing it.

In reply to ben.phillips:


So if you want the moderator to add them, presumably you mean that only E7+ leaders should be able to moderate crags?

In reply to Fiend:

"...look at what Caff does and try to think of the onsighting possibilities for yourselves..."

Sanctimonious tit. Maybe they don't want to, and who are you to dictate style of ascent?

In reply to Removed User and brices:

Those would be more like flash ascents. Ground-up always involves falling or lowering off somewhere in the process.

In reply to Fiend:

I'm looking at you, topropers of Great slab and Downhill Racer!

In reply to UKC News:
Also, given how slow the news has been of late - how come we haven heard more about Caff boshing these E8s?!?! I would have hounded the shit out of Caff for info on these things!

In reply to Duncan Campbell:

Because he fell off them first time around the freakin' punt.