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Another Friday Night Video and another fantastic film featuring Steve McClure. In this film, Steve and Neil Mawson head to the Verdon Gorge and attempt a spectacular multi-pitch. They both quickly realise they're significantly off route when the 7b pitches start feeling like 8b...

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Really enjoyed that. Nice to see a video that is more than just achieving a goal.

In reply to UKC News:

Curious as to the style of ascent.  How come some of the draws are in place ? placed whilst abbing in ? in which case did they really not know they were on 8b ?

In reply to GrahamD:

I imagine the photographer might have had something to do with any pre placed draws, unless they are someone else's project draws, placed with the intention of returning. 

In reply to Dandan:

Good question - the occasional draw is in place as we abbed the line (very roughly) in order to get down to the bottom and as it was so steep we needed to place the odd draw to keep ourselves in to the wall so as to reach each belay. Obviously it was far too long to do in one drop so we needed to make sure we didn't 'loose the wall', which we nearly did! The camera guys were also happy to have a quickdraw left here and there to grab too!

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