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NEWS: FA of Sentinel, E8 6c for Calum Muskett

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 UKC News 27 Jun 2013
Calum Muskett onsighting Authentic Desire, E7 6b, Clogwyn D'ur Arddu, 4 kbCalum Muskett has just added a bold new route to the right of the Craine/Dawes masterpiece Kaya, E6/7 6b, on Glyder Fach Main Cliff. Calum has called the new route Sentinel, grading it E8 6c or 7c+ R/X...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=68162
boulderbaz 27 Jun 2013
In reply to UKC News: 7c+ R/X... eh?
 Wft 27 Jun 2013
In reply to UKC News: thats an amazing looking piece of rock, great work
 maybe_si 27 Jun 2013
In reply to boulderbaz:

French 7c+ climbing with big/possibly painful/bad fall potential.

Its a sign of the times, a lot of hard trad routes are being given descriptions like this now, gives a better overall idea of the route and difficulty etc.
 Lord_ash2000 27 Jun 2013
In reply to maybe_si: Well makes sense for technically difficult routes.

British trad grades are so vague at the upper end that 6c spans a large difficulty range anything from about 7b+ to 8a+ give or take, which are worlds apart so if you're looking to head point a project and actually want to know how hard something is rather than just some vague approximation it seems an ideal system.
 Lord_ash2000 27 Jun 2013
In reply to UKC News: But anyways, good effort, looks a nice bit of rock.
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