One Summer - Bouldering in the PeakFri Night Vid

9th September, 2022

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This week's Friday Night Video is a step back in time to 1994 as Ben Moon spends the summer bouldering in the Peak District. He climbs some desperate testpieces including Ben's Extension (f8A+), Pinch 2 (f8A+), and pump up the stamina (f8B+), in this fly on the wall account of hard bouldering in the early '90s.

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One of the most influential climbers of all time. Ben Moon has been an active climber since the early 1980s and played a key role in developing sport climbing and bouldering. His notable ascents include:

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plyometrics

9 Sep, 2022

So shit. Yet so good.

paul_in_cumbria

11 Sep, 2022

This video and ‘The Real Thing’ video managed to be cheesy and crap, and yet the best climbing films produced. Really captured that brief magical time in climbing

simes303

11 Sep, 2022

The Real Thing is total macho cringe.

plyometrics

11 Sep, 2022

My thoughts exactly; yours just put far more eloquently!

paul_in_cumbria

11 Sep, 2022

Yep

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