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James Squire has added a new 8C to Hartland Quay, Devon, just a few metres to the left of Tom Randall's famous crack climb "The Kraken". Paradise Found starts in the middle of the roof and climbs directly out finishing on the obvious jug rail.

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Amazing effort. Congrats James! Looks  scary making those 'feet above head' moves high enough above to ground to be painful... What an effort. 

As a side-note, 8kg of sweet gainz for an elite-level boulderer is quite a body composition change. Doubly impressive. I'd be interested to hear more of James' thoughts on that.

Nice one James, super inspiring (as always). Interesting to hear about your approach too, with all the gym work. It's clearly had a positive impact!!

Looks like great climbing. 

Is this problem started off a stepladder? 

Think it's depending on the level of the beach - either a step ladder is needed, or you can just reach the holds when the beach is high enough.

Seems like an important addition to any description!

Loved this unfiltered footage of complete all out savage effort, great to see!

As with much of the coast hearabouts the pebble level can vary dramatically and particulary in this cave.  The action of swell and tide can move large pebbles around daily.  Literally metres of difference making things highball one day low ball  or even buried the next.  Ladder/ pad stacking may or may not be necessary.  

It's now been repeated by Solly:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CfeoO0HMP90/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=