https://vimeo.com/338321651
Hold has now broken off. Likely harder.
Update 04/21: Earthly Powers was initially climbed by using a high crimp for the left hand (see video above). This subsequently snapped and the problem required a somewhat harder sequence (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmPLoRvBoqo). Following this, a big crumbly block was removed from the groove to the left (which destroyed Ted Kingsnorth’s Intergalactic Power, but gave birth to The Birmingham Screwdriver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMgtsE5gBX4 ) and this exposed a bigger, better left sidepull for Earthly Powers…and made the lines somewhat confusing. So, to clear this up: Earthly Powers can be climbed using the Birmingham Screwdriver groove for the left hand at about 7B+, or without this feature at about 7C. If you can’t be arsed with all that: sit start the back of the cave and finish on the slab by whatever method you like = 7B+/7C.
Hold has now broken off. Likely harder.
Update 04/21: Earthly Powers was initially climbed by using a high crimp for the left hand (see video above). This subsequently snapped and the problem required a somewhat harder sequence (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmPLoRvBoqo). Following this, a big crumbly block was removed from the groove to the left (which destroyed Ted Kingsnorth’s Intergalactic Power, but gave birth to The Birmingham Screwdriver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMgtsE5gBX4 ) and this exposed a bigger, better left sidepull for Earthly Powers…and made the lines somewhat confusing. So, to clear this up: Earthly Powers can be climbed using the Birmingham Screwdriver groove for the left hand at about 7B+, or without this feature at about 7C. If you can’t be arsed with all that: sit start the back of the cave and finish on the slab by whatever method you like = 7B+/7C.
Ed Gow-Smith.
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Pebbles
Grade: f7C ***
(Nabor Point)