Hazel Findlay has established an aesthetic new E8 6c corner climb in Squamish, Canada, which she has named Tainted Love aka Northern Soul. Known for her penchant for awkward, technical corners, Hazel has described this line as being harder than the PreMuir corner and the famous Book of Hate in Yosemite, due to its obtuse angle.
Quite. Can think of several E9s which are 8a+ climbing with substantial but 'safe' runouts (e.g. The Big Issue), and none of them seem in danger of being downgraded.
Changing corners is one of the 14a pitches on the nose, although from watching a video it looked like a fair bit of the hard bit was powerful laybacking on the arete of the corner rather than holdless stemming. So maybe a corner but potentially not the same kind of style.
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