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Century Crack 8c

Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker have produced a grade for Century Crack in the Canyonlands, USA: 8c.


The British Invasion

Last weekend I had the chance to take out the UK's current rock stars, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker, to a place in the desert which boasts a very high concentration of sandstone roof crack routes and boulder problems. The climbs vary from thin fingers to massive off-widths and can be up to 50 meters long! Needless to say, they were very excited to get the tour and I was excited to take them back to my old stomping grounds and to a left over project or two. Tom and Pete (aka the "Wideboyz") had just come


Tom Randall – Offwidth King

Image from Google Tom Randall has been in the climbing press a lot recently, along with his equally strong offwidth-loving buddy WideBoyz counterpart, Pete Whittaker. After laying waste to all of the hardest cracks in Europe last year, they recently journeyed out to the USA. A successful ascent of the open project, Century Crack (5.14d/f8c) and a [...] Tom Randall Offwidth King is a post from: Rock Climbing UK , an online UK climbing magazine, written BY UK climbers FOR UK climbers. If you liked this post, you might also


Century Crack, the hardest offwidth in the world?

British climbers Tom Randall and Pete Whittake have carried out the first pinkpoint ascent of Century Crack in the Canyonlands, USA. An analysis including the first-hand account of Steve "Crusher" Bartlett.


Wideboys USA: Whittaker and Randall in Vedauwoo

Oh no.... They somehow managed to get through customs and find their way to a crag... America is a big place, but is it big enough for Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall?


Whittaker and Randall take on Amercia’s biggest offwidths

Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall are touring the USA, where at Vedauwoo Whittaker on-sighted the offwidth Lucille 5.13a.


Wide Boys Hit America: Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall

Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall have been training hard in a dank cellar in Sheffield for several months and are now jetting off to America to find and climb some very wide cracks. "The part of the trip I'm most apprehensive about is trying Lucille in Vedauwoo (it's such a hugely significant route) or realising that I've actually booked our flights for the wrong country and we're off to Yemen." commented Tom.


'Wide Boyz' - A Crazy New Climbing Film (Due 2012)

We've been working on a new film which will be out next year featuring Peter Whittaker and Thomas Randall. The last time Pete featured in a Hot Aches film (Committed Vol II) he produced some of the craziest climbing I've ever seen. Pete Whittaker on the first ascent of 'Dynamics of Change' E9. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for all the latest climbing videos. Over the last couple of years Pete and Tom have been on a mission to climb the worlds hardest offwidth cracks. This mission is culminating in a two


New Routes on New Crag for Randall and Whittaker

Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall have climbed two new routes at a 'new' crag - Rainroach Rock in Staffordshire. The routes, Captain Cutloose (E7 6c) and Pieces of Eight (E8 7a) took a fair bit of cleaning, but after the hard work produced two good lines.


Pete Whitaker Flashes Grit E8

Pete Whittaker has flashed the E8 gritstone arete of The Power of the Darkside at Bank Quarry, Upper Matlock Quarries, Derbyshire. The route, an unprotected arete first climbed by James Pearson in 2005 and repeated back in April 2010 by Tom Randall, features "strangely insecure and powerful moves with no protection above an appalling landing".