Autobahn | E10/8c+ Trad climb

First ascent. Harder than Century Crack.

I'd not anticipated this would become a relatively risky project initially, but I guess I know my limits fairly well, and the style of movement is really predictable. It did weigh on my mind that if I fell it'd be a head-first job, but initially the fact that there was a river under the middle twenty metre section made it feel more justifiable. Only later on did I discover that it was shallow and not much use for a bailing option, but by that time I'd committed to my strategy and I just needed to do some mental gymnastics. [2]

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DAV59jDMiLm/?img_index=1

[2] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2024/10/tom_randall_makes_first_ascent_of_hard_urban_offwidth-73812

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBFuJHXZlQI