Jennifer Wood ticks Epic Adventures 8c (b+)

Jennifer Wood, with previously two 8c’s under her belt, has sent Epic Adventures 8c (b+) at Kilnsey. (c) Mario Grabinski

Can you tell us more about your ascent?
Epic adventures is one of the most endurancy routes in the UK which really appealed coming off a winter of the most endurance training I’d done in my life 😅 and lots of trips to Greece and Spain ! I made pretty quick progress and got super close at the end of May but gauged a hole in my finger on the jump move which halted progress while it healed. Then it got wet. And got wetter. Classic UK 😅 I’d go to the crag and each session overly optimistically put the draws in, find out it’s definitely wet, climb something else then go back for the draws. Luckily all the fitness on other routes paid off and finally it was mostly dry and it actually went ‘relatively’ easily 😁 . Glad to tidy it up because although I think I only had 4-5 proper sessions on it it’s been a ‘project’ for almost 3 months now so I felt like the pressure was building.

Do you know why it has been upgraded?
Yeh it’s had a few hold breakages. Still low end for sure but we gotta have some soft routes in the uk to balance it out aha.