Regular visitors to Redpoint will know that as well as the thousands of bolt-ons, volumes and tufas that make up the routes here, we have a couple of crack-lines.
One of them is the esoteric curvy jamming nonsense that we affectionately graded 'Yorkshire VS'. The other is the heinous jamming testpeice that we figure warranted a Yosemite grade of 5.13a. A slightly easier variation utilises a few additional strategic screw-on footholds and has had a handful of ascents so far at a 'mere' 5.12c (!)
The challenge of the thin crack on its own finally fell this weekend to Redpoint regular Rich Cole.
Rock On provided the masses of fingertape and taping expertise, and Rich made several painful and determined efforts before finally succeeding. Anyone who has even tried to get off the ground on this one will agree thats a damn good effort!
For those of you with a less masochistic disposition we have lots of routes with friendly holds too!