Seven of Nine | 8B+ Boulder problem at Nevis Bouldering

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Cubby climbed the original route here ‘Sky Pilot’ (E5 6b or these days a very highball V5) in 1981. He also tried the project a decade or so later, but didn’t do the moves. He was the catalyst for me looking at it, telling me it would be a brilliant short solo and hard compared to other short routes in the UK - harder than Hubble, which he had done the moves on.

It’s a funny climb, somewhere between a highball and solo. I certainly wasn’t at all keen on falling off above the crux, and had to go all out to avoid doing just that. Grade wise I don’t have much to compare it to since I haven’t bouldered much for a couple of years, except that it’s definitely harder than any of the V13s I’ve done and seems harder than some V14s I've played on a good while ago now. Or is it? I’m not sure if it’s my style or not.

References

[1] https://youtu.be/Uv2VKd8wgQM?t=70

[2] http://davemacleod.blogspot.com/2011/04/seven-of-nine.html