Hold Fast E9 | Climbing History

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Climber	Style	Ascent Date
Dave MacLeod	Lead \| worked	16th Dec 2002
First ascent.
Dave Birkett	Lead \| worked	2006
With side runners. If you get the guidebook for Whale Rock, look at the E8 and the E5 to the right. Dave Cuthbertson writes about how you put side runners on the E2 for the E5 and on the E8 you put side runners in the E5 on the left so I only copied that description and they kind of dissed me a bit for it. I thought it was a poor attitude, I thought I can't be assed with that so I'm not telling anybody I've done Die by the Drop. My trad background is if you can climb to it you put gear in it. That's the golden rule of trad climbing really. References [1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/dave_birkett_the_weekend_warrior-8532 [2] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2006/09/dave_birkett_repeats_macleods_holdfast_e9_7a-28718

Hold Fast | E9 Trad climb at Whale Rock

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