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rydra_wongThe Friday post of glee is where you get to tell us about your climbing-related happiness this week.
It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.
N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.
To enhance this week's glee: Matt Cousins makes the first highball/solo ascent of Chimaera, "the hardest route on southern sandstone". Because the distance shot makes it look like a path, check out the close-up of the crux.
And here's Jon Partridge doing the 4th ascent a couple of years ago.
For context, the "southern sandstone" in the UK (the outcroppings around Tunbridge Wells) is exceptionally fragile, and it would be impossible to place gear or bolts without damaging the rock. Thus, everything has to be top-roped or bouldered/solo-ed, and it's the only place where top-roping is considered to "count" as a proper ascent.
It can be a new achievement or adventure, or just that you climbed and had fun; it can be that your favourite climbing wall is expanding or that you bought new rock shoes or that you found a cool ice-climbing vid on YouTube. No glee is too small -- or too big. Members are encouraged to cheer each other on and share the squee.
N.B. Please feel free to post your glee on any day of the week; the Friday glee is just to get the ball rolling.
To enhance this week's glee: Matt Cousins makes the first highball/solo ascent of Chimaera, "the hardest route on southern sandstone". Because the distance shot makes it look like a path, check out the close-up of the crux.
And here's Jon Partridge doing the 4th ascent a couple of years ago.
For context, the "southern sandstone" in the UK (the outcroppings around Tunbridge Wells) is exceptionally fragile, and it would be impossible to place gear or bolts without damaging the rock. Thus, everything has to be top-roped or bouldered/solo-ed, and it's the only place where top-roping is considered to "count" as a proper ascent.
