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Mick Ryan
Trad climber
Kendal, English Lake District
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 16, 2008 - 05:10pm PT
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Is the UK lacking climbers who can dispatch the Grit's hardest routes, some climbed over 20 years ago? No excuses about the rain and your singular obsession with bouldering please.
Team America: Alex Honnold, Kevin Jorgeson and Matt Segal are having one hellavu trip, and not just enjoying our glorious weather and having mammoth movie watching sessions, but kicking ass on God's own rock.
They are, as the lament went about the American G.I's who invaded the UK in the Second World War, "overpaid, oversexed and over here."
This week has been Honnold's. To borrow a phrase. He owned!............... Knocking on Heavens Door E8, Gaia E8, The New Statesman E8 6c, Deathwatch E7 6b, Parthian Shot E9 6c......
Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/older.html?month=11&year=2008#n45447
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Nov 16, 2008 - 05:27pm PT
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thanks Mick, but the nicknames don't quite match the first two "overs"
the Mexican, the Monk and the Midget?
some strange video out of the combination, no doubt...
the Gaia clip is great
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dickcilley
Social climber
A cova Dos Nenos
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Nov 18, 2008 - 10:55am PT
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Get those guys over on the Jackalope or Harvest.All that new stuff is overrated.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Nov 18, 2008 - 10:59am PT
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"...on God's own rock."
Amen.
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