In reply to UKC News: Awesome video and awesome achievements! Never met the guy but having watched the North Face road trip stuff he did with Gaz Parry he always came across as just a great climber who likes to have a laugh and doesn't take himself too seriously.
Always felt his treatment over the whole Walk of Life thing and some of the frankly aweful things said on here about him in the following months was more than a little unfair. His comments at the start of the video make a very important point...after all we've all been on routes that felt harder than the grade would suggest haven't we? Difference is most of us have a consensus grade to fall back on...i.e. if a climb has been VS for 20 years then even if it feels like E3 it almost certainly isn't.
Anyway, hopefully this will see the end to all the snide comments and is just the start of a storming year for James...Roar!
BTW...if he had flashed it what sort of pool of climbers does that put him in? Has anyone flashed or onsighted E10?