Green Death | E5 Trad climb at Millstone Edge

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First ascent.

The peg was originally very poor. Proctor had failed to top rope the line, so went ground-up, slowly making progress over the course of a day.

He returned to repeat the climb for a BBC programme in 1974.

The route went unrepeated by others until the mid-70s, when Proctor drilled out the peg placement and cemented it in.

You did GREEN DEATH E5, was that an epic?

That was a turning point. I realised then that I could climb blank rock, because when you get to it, it's not blank. From below you just look up and don't see the holds, but you've got to literally, get a rope, and go down and have a look. [1]

[1] The Power of Climbing (1991), David Jones, page 38

First ascent.

Tom also nabbed the first winter ascent of this very fickle line in the early 1970s.