Is was hearten today to see on UKC that a 12 year old girl climbed a F8a+/b, its heartening to know that climbing has moved on so much that a 12 year old can burn off 98% of the worlds climbers. My house mate pointed out that they must have been waiting to use that headline over at UKC for some time, and it was as good as Freddie Star Ate My Hamster.
I would imagine that they have a few written up already, with different permutations, the age can now be at either end of the spectrum from 12 or under now, or alternatively 65 or above. The next alteration, can be boy, climb, father of six, grandad, grandma, retiree, transvestite, post operational transsexual, etc… Then you can pick whatever grading system you like from the alphabet A, E, F, WI, V, M…
So be on the look out for the headline 65 Year Old Post Operational Transsexual Grandfather of Six Sea Monkeys climbs F8b+.
I was out in the park with my friends kids this evening, and there 1 year old manage to smear her way up the slide, it looked like a F6c+ slab to me. Maybe I should get onto Jack with my cutting edge news headline 1 Year Old Girl Climbs Slide. She burnt off her older sister who despite being a year older took her 2 years to complete the challenge of the Slide of Doom as her younger sister has now named the problem!
We are looking into getting a film crew in to make a documentary, unfortunately we having come up with anything as catchy as Grit Kids yet but due to the current need for nappies Shit Kids is a firm favourite.