yep - that's correct - Es soloed all the climbs and down climbed the west face of the Inn Pinn. To be pure I want to follow the same rules but at the end of the day if I don't feel up for it I'll do the alt routes... I'll be practising those climbs roped up first!Originally Posted by Bob
Finlay sets a new record 2hr 59m 22s
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Just saw this. Nice video and a crackin' run
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speechless....yes even I can be speechless...it doesn't happen often but there you go...
Well done Finlay
Now if only the camera man could have kept up.
Amazing.
It is not just the prospect of soloing the climbs against the clock, the descent of inn pin perhaps the worst.
Worse than soloing is the exposure and the terrain. I cannot imagine trying to run or move fast on most of it. Take the boiler plate slabs on the right descending sgur T to sgurr MC
I shuffled gingerly down most of that on my bum. The section to sgur na B is like running down the spines of a stegosaurus - even scrambling up to the TD gap is hanging over nothing on a shaly steep slope and so on. Coming down most of it at any pace is even worse than going up!
Respect. It makes me shudder just to think about it. One trip, and the fall would not stop for a thousand feet.
Someone should have suggested his doing it with a headcam.
Like the isle of man TT - I would not be able to watch it!
Wonder what Killian could do?
Last edited by alwaysinjured; 13-10-2013 at 11:21 PM.
Now that is going some!
Respect!
The ridge is on my list - i've been weathered off twice now........early next spring i'll be there and I'm praying for a couple of days like that
How did he do the TD gap?
The normal ab in is a vs route....did he down climb it?
The "hyslop" rules demand it is downclimbed. Only ever abseilled it myself, but I read somewhere it is a borderline severe in grade - are you saying it is VS in one of the guides? From what I can remember it has plenty of holds. UK climbing lists it only as VDiff.
The up climb is extremely variable depending on conditions. Once did the first third of the ridge in horizontal driving rain and clag. The best climber in our party who I have seen comfortably solo E1/E2 on a number of occasions and his peak grades are way higher than that just could not get up it. It was running with water and he could just could not get any traction with his feet: which makes me think that side is partially basalt. We ended up coming down the west side gulley , which is certainly "exciting". I have seen bunches of flowers a couple of times at the bottom of that. So did the bypass that time instead.
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