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Danny spent three years working toward the ascent, at one point writing it off as beyond his capabilities. However, when Pete and Tom caught wind of his efforts, they shared their training programme. We sent Danny some questions about climbing the line and his offwidth obsession...

Cracking Effort!

In what way is it 'infamous'? What happened?!

It's a horrendous crack that has swallowed up and spat back out some seriously strong climbers like Stevie!

Looking forward to a female ascent!

Oh OK. So just another hard route then...

Wow! it's infamous alright... that's one route I didn't think anyone would be rushing out an repeating any time soon! Mental.

These hard offwidths have a brutal reputation, here's the worlds best climber on an easier crack than Century (and read the caption).

https://www.climbing.com/videos/adam-ondra-battles-5-13-indian-creek-offwid...

Looks easy, I mean he's not even using his arms?

I know. That doesn't make them 'infamous' though. It's just a misunderstanding of the meaning of the word.

"Infamous-
well known for some bad quality or deed,

wicked; abominable."

Seems to fit an incredibly hard offwidth pretty well, especially one that has denied so many tough aspirant ascensionists. 

I'm sure Pete, Tom and Danny could come up with a whole list of better adjectives for the route!

Context, Michael, context.

Not convinced, sorry! I do like 'abominable' as an adjective. 

Cor, blimey. And that Ondra movie is grim as you like!