On 13th June, Matt Helliker and Rhoslyn Frugtniet completed the first ascent of the Ramp "Super" Challenge on Avon Gorge's Upper Wall. The original "Ramp Challenge" was first envisaged by the late and talented Jonathon "Woody" Woods. He came up with a local challenge to climb all the starred routes on the Ramp in one session, in what was then the current CC Avon guide and in order of its pages. For a successful completion the climber would have to lead, free and place all gear on lead before moving onto the next route as though imagining the whole project being to free a multi pitch climb. The Ramp Challenge consisted of 11 routes from E2 - E6 giving a total of 50 E points.
I cannot conceive of climbing on those walls in that level of heat, they're warm in winter! Still, I'm sure all that head did wonders for the friction...
Girdles...much as I love climbing in the UK (Mostly Scotland admittedly!) that is one deviancy I have never understood or partaken to...plain eccentric, quintessentially British
But as you so often say, horses for course and all that.
Good effort with the challenge...sounds like a big physical one.
I thought that the Ramp Challenge referred to riding down the ramp on a bike. I used to climb there loads when I lived down South and that's the only challenge I've ever heard of.
Si.
I remember watching the mbuk boys going down that on a free vid years ago, Get a Grip! "Rolling endos, they were like (finger expression) that hard!" : )
That's a different ramp. It's wider and less steep than the one where the climbs start. Also the Unknown Wall ramp hasn't got a railway at the bottom.
Si.
The ramp in the video is on the other side of the river from the climbs, but I was asking Pete if it was the video he referred to. Some pretty good bike handling skills on display.
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