Next Saturday, on the 18th August, Dave MacLeod will be taking part in The Great Climb, an outside broadcast produced by Triple Echo Productions from the Loch A'an basin in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. This climbing celebration will be broadcast live from 1pm until 7pm on BBC Two Scotland. It will also go out for an hour on the BBC Two network and on the BBC HD channel. (Scroll down to see UKClimbing.com's comprehensive report.)
Earlier this week we reported that Dave would be attempting some new lines, live on TV, in the E8 to E9 range. Dave has been out questing the last two days and has found a harder line on Hell's Lum.
He says on his blog about this new line,
"Thing is, falling from the hard part or the sustained moves above would mean certain death, no question. So where Indian Face is 7b with bad pro, this is top end 8a+ with even worse pro. Hmmm E10 for sure."
Thing is also, in June Dave decided, after pre-inspection and top rope practice, not to lead the "deadly" Indian Face, the confirmed E9 on Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, Wales, established by Johnny Dawes over 20 years ago in 1986.
You can read more about this E10 line at Dave's updated bog: click on this > davemacleod.blogspot.com/
Not surprisingly Richard Else of Triple Echo Productions told us "In 20 years of making climbing films around the world, this promises to be something extraordinarily special'." I think he might be right.
(Richard has produced just about everything to do with climbing on the BBC over the last 15 years or so, including series like The Climbers, The Edge and The Face.)
Dave MacLeod is sponsored by Scarpa, Gore-tex, Black Diamond and Mountain Equipment
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