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Ryan Pasquill has climbed Rainshadow (9a) at Malham Cove, ending a protracted battle. He has been trying the route for several years now and came very close in 2015 after climbing through the crux and onto the headwall. Unfortunately for Ryan, he broke his ribs on a drunken escapade the same evening, putting a stop to that seasons' attempts.

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In reply to UKC News:

Great effort.

Never even heard of him. I’m impressed that an unknown climbing climber can send a route that hard!

 

In reply to Al Onsight:

He is not unknown to anyone who knows anything about recent British climbing. Did you not look at the related posts at the bottom of the page. You will probably say you never heard of Hank Pasquill as well.

 

In reply to Al Onsight:

Well Sleaford is a long way from Lancashire.

In reply to Al Onsight:

You could say he's been one of the 'leading lights' of hard grit in the last decade (mainly repeats in exceptional style), together with some impressive hard sport ascents.

In reply to Al Onsight:

Son of Hank Pasquil. And now you’re going to say you’ve not heard of him!

 

In reply to Al Onsight:

Well, that'll be his loss.

It's not about being known or unknown. It's about what you can do. And, even before this, he's done an awful lot.

Mick

 

In reply to flaneur:

Hank.  Legend.

 

In reply to UKC News:

Not unknown to most in the know and in those circles an absolute hero! Great effort Ryan!

In reply to JackPalmieri:

Yeah but what’s he done on grit?

In reply to JackPalmieri:

Better, what's he done Parisellas?  

In reply to Al Onsight:

That was a red rag to a bull Al... as is saying pretty much anything in UKC forums

In reply to UKC News:

I wonder how 5.10 feels now for dropping him from the pro team Bloody good effort for a party animal haha I'm sure he's got 9b in him for sure

In reply to Ramon Marin:

Just gotta try and keep him away from too many drunk cycling escapades

In reply to MischaHY:

Good question. You'd think not much as he likes climbing in nice places haha, but I've seen him dragged along to the cave by Maddie (Usually after a party the night before). They'll climb all day and he will do well as you'd expect, but then the bit that amazes me is after a full days climbing when everyone is basically finished, he can have these crazy redpoint attempts where he just doesn't let go, they almost don't make sense. 

In reply to JackPalmieri:

Id like to counter the nice places part of your post with the many seasons he spent at raven tor

In reply to Al Onsight:

Unknown? I can't believe I just read that. 

Ryan has been around for years. He did the first ascent of "the hardest route on grit" according to John Dunne, amongst many, many other super impressive ascents.

In reply to Mick Ward:

True but usually if 'what you can do' is high standard and impressive then you'll usually make the news for at least some of it. I seem to remember that he was close to doing Steve Mac's unrepeated route, Mutation, at Raven Tor a few years back which is really impressive. But of course you don't make headlines for 'almost doing' something so unless you happen to be connected to the right grapevine most people won't hear of such things.

 

In reply to stp:

I don't think that's true, there are a fair few people who climb at a really high level who most people will never have heard of. For example Toby Saxton who's bouldered 8C/+(Monkey wedding and the Finnish line in Rocklands) and Connor Herson (who's 14) climbed 8c+ second go this year (Southern Smoke). There's plenty of underground crushers who get things done which we don't hear about. It just depends if they (or their mates) court the media about their climbs or not.

In reply to bensilvestre:

Eh? The setting is beautiful at the tor.