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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...

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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?

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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?

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So, it's Font 8B in a position to possibly hurt yourself and given Northumberland E8. What would it get on the Moors...?

Andy F

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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?

In reply to andy farnell:

E11, definitely!

In reply to UKC News:

Quality photos as always, Mark.

Incredible route.

In reply to Tyler:


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 Smith42:

Good effort at his age. He doesn't usually do much outside the Cairngorms.

In reply to IanMcC:

Wonder how many will get the joke!?

In reply to Lone Rider:


I clicked on the link to post the same joke so at least 2 of us.

In reply to IanMcC:

Terrible joke

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Good video of the ascent on his Facebook page

In reply to UKC News:
How come the FA shots seem to be at night and the FA video is during the day? Weird!

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.

Really weird, yeah....

In reply to Adam Lincoln:



Glad you agree.

In reply to The Pylon King:


I don't.

In reply to UKC News:

whhaaaa, what a line!

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?

In reply to The Pylon King:


Its called sarcasm.

In reply to Adam Lincoln:

oh yeah, gotcha.

Anyway, i was just a bit confused as both video and photos are labelled as FA.

Very nice shots though.

In reply to Franco Cookson:
Not yet. It's somewhere on my 'might get round to it when I've done all my projects and other aspirational stuff' list.

Andy F

In reply to UKC News:

Amazing

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Man the video makes this look nails. I see why he gave it 7b!

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You tube video link: youtube.com/watch?v=hvRYIUMQlII&

In reply to Rockmonkey1977:

Cracking video. Cheers for posting the link.

In reply to UKC News:

Well done Adam.

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Awsome climb Adam! Congrats!

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Great video. I love videos where the effort is apparent. The one finger catch that he almost missed when going round the arete was brilliant.

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Looks ace!