Here is a short video i made. Me and Neil spent 13 days on the East Face of the Central Tower, Torres Del Paine, Chile. 

https://vimeo.com/41232209

                                                          Fixing pitches above our high camp

Mince

Couple of sneaky pic's of quite possible the worlds shortest and essayist E7 i flashed the other day.







Gouther is a mega little crag if you've not been to it. With perhaps one of the better E3's in the Lakes, One Step Beyond. The mince and rain continue.

Gogarth and the Ego has Landed.

Since the snapped ankle/leg the weather really hasn't been playing ball here in the Lakes. Altho there is supposedly a draught on in the south of England there deffinatly isn't one up here thats for damn sure.

Between the bad weather and work a little climbing has taken place. The Board has seen some serious attention and a sneaky pass to Kendal wall was aquired. Been to Malham a bit and managed to smash in Herbie (7c+) on the upper tier, pretty cool route on really good rock (not polished)

After all this sport climbing and plastic dominating Gogarth loomed its head and the Trad was tickling me. Myself, Iron Mike and Rob nipped down and bivied in the pass....it promptly pissed it down the next morning so we tanned it over to Gogarth and nipped a few routes in before a bbq and beer on the beach. The Strand E2, park sumit/doomsville E1, the Strike E4 and Black leg E6 where the routes we got in before the sun stroke began to take its toll. my piss was yellow.

Onsiting Black leg E6.

Me and Rob then had a quick hit up to Eagle Crag Borrowdale and i did the Ego Has Landed E8. (3rd accent) I had abbed down it back in Feb before i broke my leg, it was piss wet then but was dry and clean this time. I have Adam Hocking to thank for that, also for replacing the peg which was absolutly terrible....not that it really makes the route safer.

A good little route, short and sweet.

The rock is really solid and has a lot of friction. Shame it doesn't have a few pieces of decent gear.....or not...depending on what your into.

You really wouldn't want to fall of this one, there's a few routes where you think, ahhhh maybe you would be ok, prob not the case with this. Make sure that you can apply the power if the going gets tough :)

Good to get out with a good mate for an night on the crag.


Also had a cheeky hit to Malham on Friday with Rob.
Did The New Age Traveller, (pic below) mega soft and i probably went the wrong way. but whatever.

The New Age Traveller 8a

There is talk of Chelton making it back to the UK soon, so there should be some serious night AiD'SING going down. Who knows maybe even a party......what? Ok!

Stained Glass, Bishop

Bishop 2010/11

Little vid i put together. Dont hold it against me for the screaming.....i got pretty excited.




Sorry about the music.

Slab and Crack

Few pics of Crack and Slab E7/8 at Curbar.


Really good route, bold start to really good gear and a hard top 3rd.

Training....

Sometime it rains in Ambleside....and when it does there's not a whole lot to do. There is however a little bit of wood at 45 degrees in a kitchen that we use.

Last Chance to send the Project

All comes down 2 today. My last chance to climb my project at Stoney point. Word on the street is its V10 (but climbs change at Stoney.....A LOT, so might be easy er, might be harder) all i know is its 20 moves long and i fell off the last easy move last session. today will be the 4th session on it and hopefully i don't screw it up.

Back to the wet UK tomorrow, urrrrrrrrr. Been a good trip this year, had a lot of fun in Yosemite and Colorado and managed to scrape my arse up some sweet climbs in Bishop.

Loads and loads i want to do this year in the UK if i can get up 1/4 of what i want it will wicked.

about 25 c here in LA right now.........damn it why is England so f-ing wet and cold? Just imagine how much we would get done as climbers if it was sunny 300 days of the year?