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References

[1] On The Edge issue 110, page 11

Withe special permission from the farmer as the boulder was foot and mouth banned at the time. [1]

References

[1] On The Edge Issue 107, page 14.

Date is a bit of a guess based on this interview with Natalie Berry from UKC. [1]

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/dave_birkett_the_weekend_warrior-8532

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/dave_birkett_the_weekend_warrior-8532

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CNsRi1XDU5z/

On the day he went for the lead Dave only had a limited rack with him so decided to pre-place a few pieces. [1]

References

[1] Climber July 2002, page 9

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2005/08/birkett_repeats_divided_years-19542

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

References

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz3f4J569xQ

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VTkaE0cnW8

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2007/07/new_dave_birkett_e9_-_the_real_mccoy-38671

When everything settles down as regards the grade and the hype that surrounds it, it will be heralded as a modern extreme classic of the 21st Century.

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2010/05/birkett_repeats_the_walk_of_life_-_full_story-53538

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2010/11/birkett_strikes_again_in_the_southwest-58697

Dave suggested E8 after finding (and testing!) a filed down slider to protect the route.

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2013/08/birkett_repeats_cooksons_route_and_rescues_sheep-68270

References

[1] On The Edge Issue 88, page 11

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2003/09/birkett_on-sights_e8_in_lakes-8983

The name comes from a quote from Will Ritson, an innkeeper in Wasdale in the 1800s:

There's nobbut ya way up scaafell crags...an nowt but a fleein thing could git up't crags...never neahbody he'd getten up there, an neahbody nivver wad. [1]

References

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/C8KTuRoqehd/

[2] https://www.threads.com/@climbonlinecouk/post/DLp6wUgNa-R

References

[1] https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2007/06/dave_pickford_responds_to_dave_birkett-37786

References

[1] Climb Issue 42, page 19

References

[1] On The Edge Issue 108, page 11.

References

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltUNBEtudyg

References

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeVzZDbg3eY