Pete Whittaker Instagram – Stranger Than Fiction, always been on mine and @tompaulrandall’s radar this one, but worried I wouldn’t be able to fit my meat mitts in the jams. Turns out I can (but only just in some cases as going crack and tape gloveless was the only option at the beginning) 👐😅
As it’s not had many ascents I’ll give my thoughts on the grade to add to the general consensus over time. For me it felt tough 8c, harder than Cobra, easier than Recovery. With pure cracks like this hand and finger size does always play a part though. This crack does take in a range of bad sizes so the cruxes are likely to be slightly different for everyone.
However, what can be said is it’s such a classic for the hard global crack circuit, and you really need to know your pure jamming techniques for this one. Thanks @mason_earle for the vision and the fight right to the anchor.
Maybe the power of the terrible Movember tache helped the redpoint.
Myself and @tompaulrandall will be doing a tache fundraiser with forfeit soon, so look out for that!
Now I’m going to go bathe my fingers as they feel beaten.
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The actual climbing footage is a tense watch at the end. It’ll be on @wide_boyz very soon 👊
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