Paul Pritchard


Quick Info

Nationality: GB
Hardest Trad (Worked): E8
Hardest Trad (Onsight): E7

Features in 80's Birth of Extreme.

Quick Info

Nationality: GB
Hardest Trad (Worked): E8
Hardest Trad (Onsight): E7

Features in 80's Birth of Extreme.


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Pics + Vids

Added at 16:01 on 19 January 2021
Chewing the Cwd (E5, FA)
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Added at 04:10 on 16 October 2022
The Enchanted Broccoli Garden (E7, FA)
Added at 15:04 on 28 April 2021
Schittlegrüber (E6, FA)
Added at 15:04 on 28 April 2021
Schittlegrüber (E6, FA)
Added at 15:04 on 28 April 2021

Ascents

10 recorded ascents.

Climb Grade FA Ascent Date Suggested Grade
Climb Grade FA Ascent Date Suggested Grade
Climb Grade FA Ascent Date Suggested Grade
The Super Calabrese E8 (Lead) 16th October 1986

Climbed between 16th october 1986 and 29th jan 1987.

https://www.facebook.com/rockarchivist/photos/a.149995619790657/149996786457207

Come to Mother E7 (Lead Onsight) 1986

https://www.facebook.com/rockarchivist/photos/a.149995619790657/149995939790625

The Enchanted Broccoli Garden E7 (Lead) 28th August 1986

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=117802899676596&set=a.117799293010290

I Ran the Bath E7 (Lead) 27th April 1987

https://www.facebook.com/rockarchivist/photos/a.149995619790657/149997853123767

Surgical Lust E7 (Lead) 27th May 1987

https://www.facebook.com/rockarchivist/photos/a.149995619790657/149998286457057

Rubble E7 (Lead Onsight) October 1991

https://www.facebook.com/rockarchivist/photos/a.140702324053320/140704414053111

Schittlegrüber E6 (Lead) 16th August 1986

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=117802753009944&set=a.117799293010290

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=117802933009926&set=a.117799293010290

Truncheon Meat E6 (Lead) 20th May 1987

https://www.facebook.com/rockarchivist/photos/a.149995619790657/149998133123739

King Wad E6 (Lead) 18th June 1987

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/esgair_maen_gwyn_scimitar_ridge-706/king_wad-3775

Chewing the Cwd E5 (Lead Ground up)

I was drinking whisky in the Padarn Lake Hotel with Gwion Hughes, who I was living with at the time, when suddenly I had a smart idea. ‘I have an excellent new climb to do. Why don’t we go climbing?’ The pair of us swayed and staggered up to the vast Rainbow Slab. The climb I had seen was a long hairline fracture splitting the left side of the slab. And I had the misguided notion to climb it on sight, without pre-inspection from a rope – and a little bit intoxicated. I threw a string of micro-wires, tiny brass-headed nuts, in the seam, without the least regard for my safety. The climbing was really quite difficult and became increasingly so. Nevertheless, I carried on with scant regard for my personal safety. I still remember attempting to pull on a depression into which you could place flat a fifty-pence piece: a strange, white pocket in a sea of blue-grey slate. I studied it for what seemed like an eternity and searched for my next hold. My shoe edges were set on mere ripples in the featureless slab. I began to slip and then accelerated down the slab, taking a twenty-five-metre fall. The rope burned through the lycra behind my knee. I came to a halt inches from the ground. [1]

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/CjvzOT-Shsf/

Climb Grade FA Ascent Date Suggested Grade