Kevin Avery on Huecool 8b at Gordale Marmot Clip Comp (15)

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Kevin Avery on Huecool 8b at Gordale by Eduardo Martinez

For those who don't know much about Huecool it is the hardest sport climb at Gordale, Yorkshire, at F8b and is to the left of Supercool (F8a+), itself a super classic.

A few days after this video we went back. It was 9 degrees C, driving rain and the first 5m of the route soaking. Kevin sorted out an easier sequence to the crux headwall as a warm-up. I, in my duvet, gore-tex jacket, hat and gloves belayed Kevin as he red-pointed through the crux sequence shown in the video upto the F6b finishing wall. He's done it - a formality to the top. Then I heard, "take me I'm going to fall!" and fall he did, his fingertips white frozen and no longer able to hold on.


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