bluebrad
What is written below does have a tenuous link to reality but quite what is up to you to decide. Gonzo at its best...Born the son of a lowly electric eel farmer he has, against all odds, turned into a devilishly handsome individual with a shock of hair that causes widespread depression amongst the more folically challenged of Sheffield.
He is considered by many experts to be totally insane with his deviant nature manifesting itself most obviously in his love of gritstone climbing and the selection of routes where the noble art of hand and fist jamming is obligatory to achieve any form of upward motion. Regardless of this he is actually likeable in a perverse sort of fashion.
Despite having all of the climbing ability of an encephalitic aardvark his undiminished enthusiasm does not let this get in the way of a prolonged (and ultimately doomed) epic on a two move boulder problem.
Quite happy to do routes but if you are of a weak and feeble disposition then best avoid as prolonged exposure to the prevailing elements will be mandatory while an ongoing and seemingly never ending epic ensues above you.
The degree of difficultly of any given route that he is climbing can be correlated by the amount of swearing going on - think of it as Tourettes on a rope!
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Sheffield
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Photo Gallery
Above the clouds on Ben Nevis
© bluebrad
Jam, jam, jam, gear!
© Fiend
The onset of the fear
© Fiend
Stretching it out...
© Nick Smith
One small step for man...
© fiend
Does he make it?
© bluebrad
Slipstones
© bluebrad
Paul on the crux of Tody's Wall
© bluebrad
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Anything Else We Should Know
It doesn't matter if you do trad, sport, bouldering or whatever the glitterati have deemed flavour of the month as long as you enjoy it!
The peak of my climbing career will be reached when I accept that getting fully involved with off-widths is not only interesting but should be encouraged.
Conversely the nadir of my climbing career will be when I accept that laybacking is not just a heinous method of falling off a route with a great lack of style.
An epic can be best defined as "absolute misery looked back upon with great fondness...."
I own 3 beanies.
I really like the word "epic". In fact I like the word so much that I regularly subject myself (and whichever unsuspecting person that has been selected to belay/spot me) to them just so I can use the word more often.
If you haven't figured it out yet I like to have the odd epic - please pay attention!!
Best add in the obligatory I am single...