In reply to andy moles:
Really? I find it dead inspiring even though I know that I probably won't ever follow the same approach (mostly because I like food so much)
But what it is, to me, I think, is a bit of a holy grail that you can continue to climb practically cutting edge stuff in your 50s if you want it enough. Ok, it has always been fairly evident in climbing that you can continue to improve much later in life than in other sports, (and there have been a nuber of climbers reported doing this, Rab Carrington is one, Geraldine Taylor is another) but where this is different is 9a feels reasonably close to the limit of what has been done on rock.
It demonstrates not just that personal climbing barriers can be broken at the age of 52, but barriers in the sport as well. THAT is inspiring.