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Steve McClure - Bad Ass

© Keith Sharples
"250 routes at 8a
124 routes at 8a+
64 routes at 8b
24 routes at 8b+ two of which were onsight
22 routes at 8c
7 routes at 8c+

and six routes at the magic grade of 9a..now that is a lot of climbing," so says Alastair Lee.

"We are all a bunch of club runners and Steve McClure is an olympic athlete," so says Dave Birkett.

The above from the introduction to the Magic Numbers section, a portrait of Steve McClure, from Alastair Lee's new climbing film PSYCHE.

And now Steve has impressed even more, Lucy Creamer at the BMC reports,

"The news on the ground is that Steve McClure, former British Lead Champion, has flashed all the routes in the Foundry round of the BMC Leading Ladder. Being competition routes, they are a tough style and this is no mean feat. Congratulations to Steve."


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15 Nov, 2007
I can only count 4 9a's. Mutation, Northern Lights, Rainshadow and Overshadow (9a+!). What are Steve's other two 9a's? Nerdy question from a nerd...
15 Nov, 2007
Hmmm. Is he including link ups?
15 Nov, 2007
That Foundry thing's a bit pointless. It would have been news if Steve HADN'T flashed all the routes seeing as the hardest one's only 8a, four grades below his onsight limit. ;-)
15 Nov, 2007
He's probably done more routes above 7c than I have done routes at any grades in total in my entire life jesus christ
15 Nov, 2007
Ai, but wants he done on grit?
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