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Gaz Parry Climbs True North - F8c

© Keith Sharples
Gaz Parry climbs True North, F8c, Kilnsey  © Keith Sharples
Gaz Parry climbs True North, F8c, Kilnsey
© Keith Sharples

Parting Shot for Parry as he heads for Spain

Gaz Parry has climbed the super-stamina F8c True North at Kilnsey, Yorkshire.

Commenting on his blog, Gaz describes his motivation for the line:

"A long time ago I witnessed a ground breaking fast ascent of True North. That day I had the pleasure of holding Ian Vickers' ropes as he worked the route and redpointed it on his first attempt all within 2 hours. Even by today's standards this would be considered a fast ascent of an 8c. Since then the seed had been sowed that one day I would clip the chains having repeated True North."

Gaz has attempted the route off and on for a few years, being thwarted by the weather and wet holds. This year Kilnsey was dry and Gaz "decided I would grind True North into submission".

True North is a long route on the North buttress of Kilnsey crag. The first half of the route (it has two lower-offs) is called Full Tilt (F8b) and was first climbed by Nic Sellers. The extension was first climbed by Tony Mitchell. The route is a huge sweep of grey limestone taking the impressive wall left of the famous F8a+ Urgent Action.

Having ticked pretty much everything on Yorkshire Limestone, Gaz is now re-locating to Spain to run his new business Epic Adventures, offering coaching and rock climbing holidays.

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Gaz Parry is sponsored by DMM , Entre Prises , Five Ten and North Face


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21 Jul, 2009
Good luck to gaz on his Spanish venture.
21 Jul, 2009
Effort Gaz, especially after finishing 3rd in the BBC just over a week ago - powerful bouldering and stamina 8c back to back! MattH
22 Jul, 2009
Cheers chaps. I went to Kilnsey also yesterday and did a fun link up. No new climbing really apart from maybe one move. But it combines two amazing routes. Climb 50 for 5 to the belay (dont clip it) then step left in The Ashes to finish up this. Awesome. If its not been done before it is called Freddies Revenge 8a.
22 Jul, 2009
Nice one Gaz. Now, can anyone name any other route names with grammatical errors? ;-)
22 Jul, 2009
I posted this over on ukb, but Dal did this few weeks back.
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