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'On the Reticent, Brandon had done all of the hard climbing, but here our blocks seemed similarly tricky. I had 10 pitches of runouts, dubious rock, and fear to contend with, and before long it would get dark'.

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Well done, that’s harder than you make it sound!

Awesome

Wow!

It's possible that quite a majority of folk on here won't necessarily understand quite how astonishing this is.  A4+ is long runouts on marginal only-just-body weight gear, expanding flakes, snappy edges.  It's psychologically tormenting.  I've only done low grade aid, and that was bad enough.  Respect!

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A4. Serious aid. 30-metre ledge-fall potential from continuously tenuous gear

4+ is more serious!

Agreed. Anyone who’s read Psychovertical will know how harrowing most people find Reticent Wall. For it now to be a route you tick off on the way to another is phenomenal. ‘Speed hard-aid big walling’ is a niche in a niche but this only enhances just how outrageous this is.