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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 5, 2016 - 04:55am PT
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Saw this short video and thought I'd share it with you. An 11 year old climbing with his dad what is often reported to be the UK's first ever climb.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Brilliant, thanks!
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Mark Force
Trad climber
Ashland, Oregon
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Love that!
The countryside out there is magical.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Stellar little film! Andy, I'm not sure about first ever UK climb, but certainly one of the great historic climbs of our sport.
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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That was nice. Thanks, Andy.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Thanks John. When I wrote the above post, I almost added that you, or your web site, might know if The Napes Needle was the first UK rock climb.
More important: the climb's place in affecting the growth of the sport.
"Photographs of the Needle, in magazines, newspapers, and books, carried the message of what was afoot on the crags more vivedly than any words can do, and did more to attract adventurous men to Wasdale Head than any other single factor." - Alan Hankinson in The First Tigers, 1971.
Kind of like how the pictures in Roper's red guide affected a generation of climbers?
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2016 - 01:02pm PT
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I'm not sure about first ever UK climb, but certainly one of the great historic climbs of our sport.
Oh well I was close :) When I climbed it back in 1979 it certainly felt every bit an historic climb. Getting that belay sorted around the top block was not easy.
There is a great short story called "The Man Who Broke The Needle" written by Graham Sutton and published in 1948. It's along similar lines to the Boot Flake falling off each year. If anyone's interested I can take a few screen shots and post it up.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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nice
and thx jgill for the link
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Yes, by all means,Andy, post it up.
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 6, 2016 - 03:46pm PT
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OK the story was written by Graham Sutton in 1948 and published in a book called Fell Days. The version I have comes from a collection of climbing stories compiled by Walt Unsworth in 1984. Below is the cover followed by the 8 pages of text.
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