Climbs

Climb Name Type Grade # Ascents Recorded Notes Exclude Reason
Beneath Black Waters Trad climb E6 1
Bérézina-Carnage Boulder problem 7C+ 1
Berlin Wall (Wimberry) Trad climb E6 1
Bernie The Bolt Boulder problem 7C 1

Another futuristic ascent from Rob Gawthorpe in the early 1980s

Best Easterns Trad climb E5 1
Beta Move Boulder problem 8B+ 1
Beth's Traverse Boulder problem 7C 1
Better Dead Than Smeg Trad climb E6 1
Better Than Life Sport route 8b+ 1
Beyond Integral Sport route 9b 1
Bifur Trad climb VS 1
Big Bone Sport route 9b 1
Big Brother Trad climb E2 1
Big Cigar Sport route 7c 1

The subject of some bolt-related controversy that saw the line debolted.

Big Conviction Boulder problem 8C+ 1

Links Conviction (du bas) in to The Big Island.

Big Daddy Boulder problem 8A+ 1
Big Foot Boulder problem 7C+ 1

Norway

Biggles Tears a Tendon Trad climb E4 1
Big Kahuna Sport route 8b 1
Big Leviathan Boulder problem 8B 1

The full line starting as for Leviathan SDS and finishing as for Leviathan Extension. All other lines are effectively variations on this, starting or finishing in different places.

To add to the confusion there has been several changes to the problem due to a glued crimp. When James Taylor and Sam Tolhurst were establishing the original problem Leviathan (Crouch Start) (7C+) there was a good 3/4 finger edge in friable rock which broke off. Thinking the hold crucial James repaired the hold only for it to break again. James repaired the hold once more, but the result was almost entirely glue. The various starts and extensions were established in this state, with Ben Bransby finally establishing Big Leviathan Extended (Sans Resin) (8C) as the full line eliminating the resin hold. After Bransby's ascent the resin hold was knocked off leaving a small, natural hold in it's place and also making his eliminate defunct. [1]

References

[1] https://ukbouldering.com/threads/leviathan-etc.34150/

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