from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Racked up for rigging the Longhope Route - more of Lukasz’ pictures of this route in my lectures next week. All of next week I’m travelling around doing talks each evening in a different part of the UK. Maybe I’ll see some of you?! Mostly I’ll be talking about the importance of taking on massive projects like the Long Hope route on Orkney. Big projects like that and a few other hard climbs I’ll show you involve a lot of doubt - you just don’t know if you’ve got enough to finally do them ...
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from UKClimbing.com News
In this interview with Dave MacLeod we get the full details of his new E11 route on Hoy.
Illustrated with superb video grabs from the forthcoming film by Hotaches, this interview gives a real flavour of this multi-pitch sandstone epic!
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from Life in the Vertical
Just seen on andys blog that they were successful on the Long Hope route, hopefully with Daves F8b finish on suspect sandstone. I have to say I am looking forward to the film from Hot Aches already. The Pinnacle managed Continue reading
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from Hot Aches Productions
This year's major film project is about to commence. We are shortly heading to the island of Hoy with Dave Macleod and Andy Turner to film an ambitious ascent of the Long Hope Route on St John's Head. The Long Hope Route, Pic Dave MacLeod, Click to enlarge But first, a bit of history. The Long Hope Route was first climbed in 1970 by Ed Drummond and Oliver Hill. They spent 7 days on the wall, sleeping on ledges and in hammocks, and several of the 23 pitches involved some aiding. A first free ascent was made
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