18 October 2016

The Wideboyz do 100 the metres 8b+ crack

Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, aka The Wideboyz, have done the Millennium Arch Project, which is a 100 meters 8b+ crack and they did it in one pitch. "We had to break all the rules of normal trad climbing. As the pitch is so long and also near the start quite easy to hit the ground, you have a pretty massive rack. So we pre-placed the gear whilst dogging the route to make it like a sport route and also left a rope in place for the last 25m as our first rope wasn't long enough. It's not a sport route, it's not a trad route. It's a challenge The other problem is that to get to the cave you have to access via rope and each time you lower off you also have to climb a pitch of easy climbing to get back to the belay! It's quite an adventurous big cave... Big walling for single pitch climbers.!" The 8b+ was actually just a side project as their big 9a+ trad project, The Crucifix was wet. Tomorrow we will present a progressive report :)
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