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This week's Friday Night Video is another from 'angry pensioner' Rob Matheson. We follow him and Ian Cooksey up to  Mosedale crags where they attempt the first ascent of a new route that follows a striking slim groove with very sustained and technical climbing.

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Beautiful route, beautiful film - two gnarly old timers strike gold yet again!

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'Bonzo' definitely fancied that butty!

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I hope Gem is getting a fair share of the profits from these videos. 
 

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It seems such a long time ago when it was nearly too hot to climb. Rob looked relieved to clip that peg. Thanks for posting.

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The aid point is a blot on an otherwise perfect landscape.

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always enjoy the videos from Rob, looks like an amazing route as well

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About time this came out! 
Just need to eke out his other videos now 🤞

Top blokes, inspiring as ever - Went up to do this but it pissed down all day 😭 bit daft really.

Sand bags have been left up the hill so the masses needn’t bother carrying them in.

In reply to Scott Quinn:

Rob is no longer grading for onsight ?

In reply to UKC News: We’ll done chaps.. nice to see the future of British rock climbing is in safe hands.. 😉

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Amazed that the line hadn't been climbed before! 

In reply to Mick Lovatt:

Thanks Mick ! I also used the latest grading tool to grade the climb as well ! eGrader says "Hard E5" as it is "French grade 7b" and "well protected trad". We were trying to keep up to date !

In reply to PaulJepson:

I think the walk in puts lots of people off. I believe Rob says in the video that there's a lot of future routes to be done on high-up single pitch crags.

These "craglets" aren't so obvious as the "big" cliffs so you'd need to put in some effort just to see whether there's any worthwhile lines on some "tiny" - from a distance - piece of rock.

And then there's the weather...