Adam Watson has recently climbed a major new-route at Back Bowden, after 5 years of effort. Adam has named the line Purgatory, and given it the grade of E8 7b. It climbs leftwards from Lost Cause, E4 6b, up the blunt arete to the right of Transcendance, E8 6c...
Brilliant effort. Thats such a good line, always used to admire it when doing lost cause. Well done Adam. That must make it up there with the hardest routes at Back Bowden?
That looks awesome! Is the hard climbing all over at the point where the photos are taken because it must be getting close to deck out zone around there?
Looks amazing! Excuse my trad ignorance, however, can I assume that it gets the tech 7b in the transition between both routes, given that tech is generally used as acknowledgement of the hardest move? Or does a similar principal apply as with bouldering where they, for example, add the 2 V no's, halve it and add 2?
> That looks awesome! Is the hard climbing all over at the point where the photos are taken because it must be getting close to deck out zone around there?
From what we saw that's mid crux sequence,so fall could be nasty. Adam has climbed enough hard routes to know what E8 grade feels like, but must admit font 8a+/8b above that fall adds up to a few more E points in my book!!
In reply to The Pylon King: Whys it weird? It was probably the off camera flash making the sky look darker than it is. Or quite simply, they aren't the first ascent shots and were got a few hours earlier.
Not sure what you're talking about with the Moors. Looks quite like some of the hard and safish stuff there that will be around H8/9. Have you been on Psykovsky's yet Andy?
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