Online Climbing

Alan James - UKC and Rockfax editor in cheif.

I had a call yesterday morning from Jack Geldard from UKC, he was in town for the first time in what seemed like years, as I hadn’t seen him since before I went away to the Americas. He was heading out to the slate with a group of climbing website owners from around the world, as UKC was hosting a small Online Climbing community gathering. I am sure they’ll be somethng on UKC about the event.

Anyway we headed up to The Rainbow Slab, and climbed all the routes on Bella Lugosi Slab, followed by a team ascending Pull my Daisy. After that we all headed to the Cig-arete level, and tried a few things up there. Sarah, Jack’s Girlfriend and an editor from a german online climbing site, made a rapid ascent of Cig-Arete, Pete BEal from an american site made short work of Sleight of Hand, and after I failed miserably on Taken over by department C, a few of the czech guys and I think Pete made quick work of that route.

I was inspired to have a pop on Cig-Arete on a rope, I wasn’t hoping for much as I found it really hard the last time I was on it, and was completely shut down. Feeling weaker, I had previous climbed Taken over by department C, when I was shut down of Cig-arete. A great thng happened though, I managed to climb the route, only falling off as I missed a blind hold. So good news is I did it very swiftly, the bad news is of course I have to go back for the red point!

Hope you like the pictures.

Alan James high on Horse latitudes
Alan James on Pull My Daisy
Alan James on Pull My Daisy
Sarah goes to tag the arete on on Cig-arete
Sarah Burmeister on Cig-Arete
Mark Gliaster on makes the Sleight of Hand move

Alan James Horsing around on horse latitudes
Fingers and sky on Cig-Arete
Jack Geldard heading up Cig-Arete

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