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NEWS: New Dorset E8 for Tom Randall

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 UKC News 07 Nov 2016
Tom Randall - Supersonic Montage, 4 kbTom Randall has climbed a new E8 at Blackers Hole in Dorset. He has named the route 'Supernova' and believes the physical difficulty to be around 8a+. The route takes the line of a stunning crack on Pete Oxley's 1993 aid route .

Tom discovered the line by accident whilst he was trying ...

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 AJM 07 Nov 2016
In reply to UKC News:

The description of the route ("a crack on the aid route") is a bit odd wording - the crack is the aid pitch - this is the link of the 2 pitches of The Schwarzechild Radius (8a+) described in the current guide isn't it...

Having seen Tom and Ian on it the weekend before it does look absolutely mega.
 feeko 07 Nov 2016
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Looks well bolted for E8
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 AJM 07 Nov 2016
In reply to feeko:

About half those bolts are original vintage!
 Michael Gordon 07 Nov 2016
In reply to AJM:

Yes, hasn't he simply freed an existing route? Looks brilliant either way.
 thermal_t 07 Nov 2016
In reply to UKC News:

Cool to hear that hard routes are being put up/freed in our neck of the woods. Exciting to hear that there might be more to come! Well done Tom.
kwebler 07 Nov 2016
In reply to UKC News:

What is with people's obsession with the name supernova?.. at least its not called 'the wave'.
 GrahamD 08 Nov 2016
In reply to UKC News:

Have to say that cave looks pretty outrageous from the safety of the wings. Great to see hard stuff being done at Swanage.
 SenzuBean 08 Nov 2016
In reply to kwebler:

The original route was the Schwarzechild radius, which is a physics concept to do with black holes. Tom basically kept the same line, so chose to keep a black hole related name - seems sensible to me. Plus after that beasty roof he probably felt his arms were about to explode something terrible too...
 galpinos 08 Nov 2016
In reply to SenzuBean:

> The original route was the Schwarzechild radius,

Is this a typo in the guide, on UKC or a an intentional misspelling? I thought it was "Schwarzschild"

 SenzuBean 08 Nov 2016
In reply to galpinos:

> Is this a typo in the guide, on UKC or a an intentional misspelling? I thought it was "Schwarzschild"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius

Who knows why the spelling is different
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