Dave McCleod frees 400m of E8 in Norway.

[emperor]

Dave McCleod has been in Norway recently, and I've been watching his blog posts (available here as davem_feed) with some interest. He recently posted about his free ascent of the 400m E8 granite route "Bongo Bar", grading the pitches 7b+, 7b+, 8a, 7c, 7b, 6c, 7a, 6b. There's a short film clip in that entry, and UKclimbing have a write up here.

Comments

[rydra_wong]

Duuuude. He's all about freeing the epic multi-pitch aid routes lately, isn't he?

[emperor]

I like the way he's able to admit to disco-leg on one pitch, too!

[atreic]

That is an icon of geek awesomeness. [If you share icons, I'd love to steal it, but I will fully understand if you want to keep it all to yourself!]

[rydra_wong]

I'm kind of personally attached to the alot icon, I think. But you'd be welcome to share my other xkcd/climbing icon, if you'd like.

*points up at icon*

Thanks for asking, and for appreciating the icon!

[atreic]

Yes, I think I would want to keep it for myself if I'd been clever enough to have the Awesome Idea first :-) You must use the icon alot though, because the internet needs more of it ;-)