2nd Ascent of The Meltdown 9a by Ignacio Mulero
Spanish climber Ignacio Mulero has made the first repeat of James 'Caff' McHaffie's The Meltdown 9a in Twll Mawr, Llanberis Slate Quarries. The intimidating slab line escaped even slab connoisseur Jonny Dawes, but was eventually claimed by Caff...
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Me and some friends were in Serengeti the day before he did Meltdown. If only I had known who the guy sitting down and watching me punter off Windows of Perception on TR was, I might have clung on a bit harder and stopped dicking around!
I'd like to think I inspired him to get on it...
Impressive bit of climbing and cool video only let down by the subtitling.
I especially liked two bits:
First when he lassoed the next clip - cool I thought :-)
Then the bit where he pulled his foot up with his hand and then snatched to the next holds with both hands at the same time - had to rewind/replay a couple of times to confirm "did I just see that?"
Amazing that he did this in Boreals
Why?