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NEWS: New Glencoe E7 gets wild on-sight attempt

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 UKC News 13 Aug 2014
New E7 at Creag A'Bhancair, 4 kbThe soaring walls above Glencoe's Tunnel Wall are back in vogue this summer, with a new “four star” E7 getting a spectacular on-sight attempt just a week after it was first climbed.

"...it keeps coming at you. There is very good gear but you yard out on undercuts that get worse and worse and footholds that get smaller and smaller. Just when you think you can't go any further you see a big flat flake you have to launch for....”

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=69111

 mike barnard 13 Aug 2014
In reply to UKC News:

Brilliant stuff. Quite a lot of good new routes been done in the mountains this year it seems.
 Lone Rider 13 Aug 2014
In reply to UKC News:

Wonder if Ian bothered to clean up Carnivore as meant to do that one years ago and all the rest of the routes are just too hard?
 TobyA 13 Aug 2014
In reply to Lone Rider:

I did a route and called it the Constant Gardener a few years ago (it was about HS though...) so I reckon Ian nicked my route name idea.

Confusingly the headline here said Ian did the route, then all the story text is about Niall doing it - am I missing something?
 jon 13 Aug 2014
In reply to TobyA:
Iain FA, Niall second ascent?
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