Fri Night Vid Mother Earth - 8b Trad in Australia
This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushla...
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He missed out the nightmare sloping mantle at the top.
So did I!
Must admit I did too the first time. It's such an obvious line that I did not look at the guide. I just followed the flake bottom to top. Seemed the logical way. I got a bit of barracking for it but the mantel (which I have done since) seemed a pointless eliminate
I agree that it can easily be dismissed as pointless, but in reality it provides much entertainment - for both leader and onlookers!
Wot - no mantle? Heresy! Go back and do it again.
At least he used the same three runners I always used - a cam instead of a hex but I guess that's progress.
Have always loved Jim's essay - beautifully read (by Helen Mort?)
Mick