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'It felt like trying to onsight a string of five unchalked E5's and E6's whilst super dehydrated on baking granite' - Angus Kille and Hazel Findlay talk us through their ascent of The Free Hallucinogen Wall.

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In reply to UKC News: so did they actually climb it from the bottom to the top, one pitch after another until they reached the top without leaving the wall? And climbing every pitch?

In reply to ColdNorth:

Hi, yes they climbed it bottom to top without leaving the wall. Mid-way through their ascent they spent thirteen hours waiting for better conditions on a portaledge that they had stashed earlier. They swung leads during the ascent, meaning that whilst neither of them led every single pitch of the route, every single pitch was led by one or the other of them in a single push.

In reply to Xa White - UKC and UKH:

Probably worth mentioning, for the benefit of our friends on the other side of the pond, that on the the pitches they didn't lead they would have seconded (free climbed) them rather than jugged up the rope.  Doesn't say that in the article I'm guessing as UK climbers would assume that.