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18 year-old Aidan Roberts from Ambleside has made the second ascent of John Gaskins' Traci Lords SDS (f8B) 8B+ at the Lad Stones, Coniston Boulders.

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Fantastic. The UK definitely seems to have a good handful of really talented young climbers now.

The grade is interesting though. So Gaskins gave it 8b. It's got easier and now thought 8b+. Wonder what that says about his 8b+s ? When was it first done?

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Really cool to see a Gaskins problem get repeated. I was always suspicious he was ahead of his time in difficulty. I still want to see VNB get repeated by some mutant.

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It's a very impressive effort. I've done the stand to that which is now actually not that hard, the sit however is brutal, those lower holds are awful and it didn't seem remotely possible to me as a f7B/7C climber, just shows the next level ability this kid has.

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good to see Traci Lords stock is still high with the youth of today, she was on some of my most treasured VHS cassettes back in the 80's