David Murray has made the second ascent of Adam Watson's Purgatory (E8 7b) at Back Bowden, Northumberland; a short, bold route, which starts up Lost Cause and moves left to rise up the blunt arête to the right of Transcendence.
In reply to Tyler: In the first paragraph it says: "a short, bold route, which starts up Lost Cause and moves left to rise up the blunt arête to the right of Transcendence" - as such I'd presume so.
On a separate and completely unrelated note, seeing that pic of the rope behind David's leg is enough to give me nightmares...
Unfortunately the video makes it look ridiculously easy (for 7b!) since it doesn't show the angle, and he's up it in about 10 seconds. A lot of these short hard routes I think have to really be seen in the flesh to appreciate them properly.
Sure, the video itself doesn't make it obvious, but if you say font 8A+ and runout; I get the picture! I'm just wondering if the sole disliker thought I was being sarcastic, in fact no, exactly the opposite. Anyone who's done some hard bouldering will appreciate the level of strength and control in the video; that those move(s?) should be 7b.
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