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18 year old Will Bosi has achieved an incredibly fast redpoint of Jerry Moffat's Evolution 8c+ at Raven Tor, on his third attempt.

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In reply to UKC News:


erm...

In reply to Lemony:
Nic Sellars and possibly Rich Simpson

In reply to Lemony:
Apart from Steve M, has British sport climbing really moved on from the Ben & Jerry show?

Am I right in thinking that nearly all of Steve M's top routes (i.e. the 9's) have either not been repeated or not by a Brit?
Mutation - not repeated
Stevolution - ???
Roofolution - ???
Rainman - not repeated
Batman - has this been repeated yet?
Overshadow - only Ondra
North Star - ???
Northern Lights - some repeats (come on Ben you can do this)
Rainshadow - "many" repeats

Has he done other 9's or is it just a lot of 8c/8c+s?

In reply to Michael Hood:


No. Hopefully Will and some of the other young talents though are changing that. This is a phenomenally fast repeat. Nic Sellars also made fairly light work of the route I think, though not this quick.


Steve has also done a long boulder traverse at Dog's Dinner buttress graded 9a. And he's done various link ups at the Tor, boulder-routes including a marathon traverse that finished up Mecca. Don't know what grade that was but pretty sure it won't have been repeated.

In reply to Lemony:
Malcolm Smith too I think did it

In reply to Lemony:

Hasn't Stu Littlefair done it too?

In reply to Michael Hood:

Cripes the chaps just done 8c+ in 3 goes at a crag that takes most people 3 goes to find the hand holes, 3 goes to find the foot holes and 3 to try and connect them.

ohh and rainshadow.

He may have also be studying at that age too?
Hats off to him.

In reply to Ian Broome: Oh I'm not decrying what WB's done - it's pretty impressive. Hopefully it's the start of him getting into more 9's and becoming world class.

In reply to Tyler:

People need to to stop mentioning Rich Simpson - he's been outed as a total liar and nothing he claimed is valid. If he's done it so have I....