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A lad I used to teach has become a pretty handy 'enduro Alpinist' and here's a video of him doing some 'cragging' recently.
If anyone is around Keswick/Cockermouth, he's doing a slideshow/presentation on Wed 15th Feb in Cockermouth (for charity).
mail me if interested (£7.50 with pie and peas......bar too...)
Nicely done. Was that recently? Looks suitably lean enough... (the route, not yer man).
EDIT: I see now...
doing some 'cragging' recently.
bloody scary stuff that............nice tho. 8)
I reckon I saw his ring twitch at ~1:10. Mine would have anyway.
I'm still a relative noob in ice climbing, so that video just made me both excited and scared 🙂
It's amazing how controlled and smooth guys like that are, I find it much harder to get any sort of rhythm going compared to rock, really impressive stuff - thanks for posting!
not really ice climbing - that is scottish mixed (and all the more impressive for it)
I never got on with dry tooling; was happy with axes in ice, well consolidated snow or frozen turf, but not skitting around on rocks unless there was a good torque to be had.
I'm going to send this to my old climbing mate; he will then get predictably psyched and head off to scotland 🙂
Dave
Will has done some impressive stuff on bigger mountains - including a sub 15hr ascent of the Cassin Ridge on Denali. Great camera work by Jon Griffith
looks ace, loved winter mixed routes, free standing ice columns scare the bejeezus out of me though
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I climbed a frozen waterfall in Scotland once; when I reached the top I discovered that it had detached itself from the rock and was wobbling by about an inch back and forth. Ooops.
There was a great picture series in Alpinist a couple of years ago with some chap on an ice column which collapses in a cloud of particles. The climber was ok but a very impressive looking fall.
Pre-placed gear at 44 seconds and use of knees 🙄
Pre-placed gear at 44 seconds and use of knees
What are you posting about? There's no pre-placed gear - at 44'', he removes an axe he's placed earlier (on an edited section of film). Using knees in the 21st C, on a test piece mixed climb is like wiping your nose on your glove's thumb towel while cycling - Victorians would disapprove, but ........ why?
Will did an after dinner talk for our climbing club last year.
Top lad, very modest, funny and inspiring.
Pre-placed gear at 44
Take it back - you're right. The gear was left by a team who failed due to high wind the week before.
This one sandwich? Pete Thexton's near miss
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