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E9 6C

ajfclark

18-Jan-2013
9:37:34 AM

Not really my thing, there's a lot of rambling speech in this that is too hard for me to parse and not much detail on the climbing itself.

pmonks

18-Jan-2013
11:14:25 AM

Ah the 80s!

Olbert

20-Jan-2013
10:50:50 AM

That old dude was amazing! He must be sooooo high all the time. He talked wank every time he came on.

nmonteith

20-Jan-2013
9:05:58 PM

Redhead comes across as a total tool. Worst acting award nominee.

Eduardo Slabofvic

20-Jan-2013
9:34:20 PM

Yeah, and his "art" was just as big a w@nk

IdratherbeclimbingM9

21-Jan-2013
9:48:05 AM

On 18/01/2013 pmonks wrote:
>Ah the 80s!

+ ego (+ weed ?) = the negative aspects, as it came across like a drama piece.
However I could see the artyfarty aspect too, and that has it's own kind of 'cool'*.
(* Often a bit hard to relate to though, as art is in the eye of the beholder...)

It was still good to see the route, rock type, and some of it's holds up close, and get a sense of what E9 6c involves.
~> Yeah, I can see that it takes a special state of mind to lead a climb of that nature.

Nick Clow

21-Jan-2013
10:09:25 AM

I have my opinion as to who the w@nkers are.

E. Wells

21-Jan-2013
10:54:38 AM

was he calling using a small hold 'clogging' ? Masturbates in crazy town and leaves the crags and tarns pure and clean. I feel this way about the dam cliffs.

martym

21-Jan-2013
4:07:17 PM

What the hell was that all about?
Some guy climbed a route called Indian Face... some other guy top-roped it first, then soloed it.... and in between the FA drew a picture of "two climbers on a route" - which looked very much like someone spreading their legs & a dick&balls squiggle.. 6.20 - look for it!

IdratherbeclimbingM9

21-Jan-2013
4:18:42 PM

From the clip;
>
"Lift a finger and you are off."

This bloke isn't allowing for the fact of the future progression of climbing.
If this climb is that tenuous, then how bad will E10 6C be?
;-)

E. Wells

21-Jan-2013
4:45:36 PM

Thats when you cant even CONSIDER lifting a finger

dmcg

21-Jan-2013
5:13:29 PM

why did watching that leave me thinking Neil from The Young One's would make a really bold climber?

Dr Nick

21-Jan-2013
7:26:54 PM

Neil was an aid climber. He used nails to hold himself to the wall.

There's a better film called Indian Face that was an inclusion on Stone Monkey which shows a lot more footage, and makes you realise just how batshit insane both of them were.

Macciza

22-Jan-2013
5:07:09 PM

On 21/01/2013 dangermouth wrote:
>was he calling using a small hold 'clogging' ?

Are you serious? You don't have a clue what they're talking about do you ?
He is talking about Cloggy = Clogwyn Du'r Arddu - Look it up . . .

MM

MisterGribble

22-Jan-2013
6:11:05 PM

On 22/01/2013 Macciza wrote:
>On 21/01/2013 dangermouth wrote:
>>was he calling using a small hold 'clogging' ?
>
>Are you serious? You don't have a clue what there talking about do you
>?
>He is talking about Cloggy = Clogwyn Du'r Arddu - Look it up . . .
>
>MM

Redhead is Welsh, obviously got lost in translation, cut the man some slack now will you?

Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn llyswennod

Nick Clow

23-Jan-2013
8:10:06 AM

He is certainly not Welsh, he's English. He left Wales to live in France some years ago and, at the time, had quite a lot to say about Welsh nationalism and small-mindedness.

kieranl

23-Jan-2013
9:13:42 AM

There was a saying "Come home to a real fire - buy a cottage in Wales". The welsh really resented the english taking advantage of the depressed Welsh economy to buy cheap holiday places. Around Llanberis in 1983 there were a few burnt-out cottages about.

Nick Clow

23-Jan-2013
9:26:58 AM

Quite.

From the accounts of Haston, Pritchard and Dawes living in Llanberis in the early 80s (given Thatcherism, unemployment, glue-sniffing, aggro, pi$$ etc) was pretty edgy.

He probably stood about as much chance of getting his head kicked in town as he did of wrapping himself up on the rock. (He sort of alludes to this in the film.)

MisterGribble

23-Jan-2013
11:08:24 AM

On 23/01/2013 Nick Clow wrote:
>
>He probably stood about as much chance of getting his head kicked in town
>as he did of wrapping himself up on the rock. (He sort of alludes to this
>in the film.)
>
Painting a mural on Cloggy would not have increased his popularity much either!

Nick Clow

23-Jan-2013
4:48:19 PM

Kieran
From your comment above, I take it you were in Llanberis in 1983? Climb on the Rainbow Slab?

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