French alpinist and member of the Chamonix mountain rescue team (PGHM) Jeff Mercier recently visited the UK to sample some of the hardest dry-tooling routes. During his trip Jeff onsighted Greg Boswell's route Powerdab D13 - contender for the hardest route of its kind in the UK - at The Works, Hodge Close and managed to complete every hard route at the crag in the two-day period before returning to France.
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This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...