Earlier this year Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker (AKA the Wideboyz) travelled back to their favourite crack haunt of Canyonlands National Park in Utah, where they established another hard first ascent in the White Rim – Black Mamba 5.14b – which may be their hardest roof crack yet. This ascent came just days after they made the first repeats of Necronomicon 5.13d/5.14a.
A film about their trip has just been released, which features all the grit (OK, sandstone in this case), determination and hilarity that we've come to know of this pair's adventures. Are you prepared to try so hard that your underwear breaks?
Love it. Absolutely great. I've had a shit day in the office doing my IT stuff, and (have drunk too much wine) just love seeing that these two are still out there getting the most out of life, doing amazing things and being insiprational. I find most climbing vids deeply tedious, but as soon as I see Wide Boyz (sp?) my eyes light up and I'll be entertained .
Easy answer - both of us forgot to bring a belay device out that day. Which is pretty typical! I blame it on Pete entirely and I'd never do anything like that...
The WC 5&6 are totally awesome (the big + being that they're very stable when pretty open) but they only cover you up to a size that's a touch bigger than hand-fist stacks. On this project it's 9+ inches and so you're either soloing or using the VGs. We did also have the options of the Merlin massive cams but I'd heard some stories about them being extremely fragile.
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