This week's Friday Night Video takes us to France, where Pablo Recourt has set himself the challenge of finding the country's best 8a route. This film gives a glimpse into the 24 year old's six month journey, in which he cycled more than 4,000 kilometres between forty crags, and climbed forty-three 8a routes.
(English subtitles available if required!)
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Nice looking video - one small thing. In the title, the climb should be 8a not 8A as the latter denotes a boulder problem and the former a route.
Weren’t many climbs shown . mid the first climb shown, the one in the screen grab pic at Claret ?
That video is so French!
If it was a British climber (or German I think, or indeed most nationalities) it would be structured to show where he went, which crags, which routes, and it would end up with a decision as to which of the routes he felt were the best.
As it is, he doesn't say where he gets to, mentions only one route that I noticed (which rather pleased me as it's one of the few 8as that I've onsighted!) and spends most of his time talking about how he feels.
It's a nice looking video, but from my British climber perspective I'd really like to have more nuts and bolts!
UKC don't control the title of the video, it's just embedded from YouTube.
The title was changed by UKC from 8A to 8a a few days ago so Im not sure what you mean? The title in the Youtube video is 8a not 8A.