Adrian Berry, editor of Planetfear.com, has climbed one of the last obvious lines on Frogatt, Derbyshire. The wall above the boulder problem 'Slingshot' had seen a lot of previous attention from Seb Grieve, but to get to it, you have to climb a Font 8a boulder problem. Enter Mr Berry, who put up the tenuous E8 'Soul Doubt' on Froggat in 2000 and is also no slouch in the bouldering department. After climbing Slingshot to a ledge, he had a harness thrown up to him for the F7c+ climbing on the headwall, with gear consisting of Wild Country 'Zero' Friends. The as yet un-named route has been given E10.
What an incredibly curious news report - "Adrian Berry, editor of planetFear has climbed a direct finish to Sling Shot at Froggatt. The route first climbs Sling Shot, before taking the sustained headwall directly above. More details as we get them!". More details as we get them???!!? ...er, aren't you the editor? Have you tried asking yourself for the details? Still good effort Adrian for the climbing. Alan
I expect he's out on the piss celebrating, and I don't blame him. Great stuff. And confirms him as one of the uk'S "top" climbers (as Bridget would say).
Doesn't Matt Heason run the planet climbing part of the site with the news etc....? Tho still agree with you, what would you ask if you heard that news? hmm,,,,,,GRADE for starters! Si
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