The Petzl Roc trips get better and better, bigger and bigger. This year was no exception, with single pitch routes 100m long, I don't think they get any longer. I was invited again, obviously as the token Brit, there for dry humour and poor dress sense and perhaps because I've won a few trips, even up against the likes of Sharma and Andrada. Fortunately they hadn't spotted it was clearly either a fluke or involved some serious cunning. On performance alone I think I'd be lucky to scrape in!
Keyword - Hardest redpoints
Long Routes - Petzl Team extend themselves July 17, 2009
- Hardest redpoints
- Multi-pitch
- Rock climbing
- RocTrip
Mecca survives! June 12, 2009
- Hardest redpoints
- Rock climbing
Hardly news to 99.999% of climbers, but to those that care, the starting block falling off at the start of Mecca was a big issue!
Link - ups: do they count for much? November 2, 2008
- Hardest redpoints
- Rock climbing
Not really, but does anything in our sport really make sense? We look for the hardest way up the wall, then try and find the easiest way up it! Link-ups are fun for training, though often make two OK routes into one really good one.
Rapsody [E11] July 8, 2008
- First ascent
- Hardest redpoints
- Rock climbing
So far this year climbing seems to be going well. I managed to redpoint a new 9a/9a+. I always thought it was 9a+, but it went fast, so I wondered, is it really so hard???
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