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Brown stood in a sling beneath the overhang whilst the crack above was cleaned.

One of the most audacious first ascents on grit.

Don Whillans:

We'd looked at it and thought: I wonder if that'll go, Christ, it looks hard and it looks as if there isn't any protection. I asked one of the lads to chuck a rope down. I tied on and went up beneath the overhang. When I looked out where the rope was going I thought 'This is no bloody good'. Anyway, so I went out just a couple of moves to the end and thought: 'Well, I don't know, it looks hard!' Anyway, I came down and I was feeling quite fit, it was dry and I was on reasonably good form. 'Give us the rope, I'll go and have a look to see if I can get a chockstone in. I took the stone up; couldn't get it in, made a few moves out, got right to the very end and thought: 'I might as well go all the way here!' So I made the few moves out and I think that the thing which sticks out in my mind about that route is, not so much the difficulty – it was fairly boldish, because I couldn't get anything in, I had no protection whatsoever. But there's a bloody big rock right at the end on the ground that you would go splat right onto and that would be the end of the story if you fell off [onto] that.[1]

Keith Sutcliffe:

When it came to leading it he had the peg in his teeth ready to place but found with no rope in the crack he could get better jams so had no need to place it and just carried on.

The chock was placed later on by others. [1]

References

[1] 'Peak Rock', Vertebrate Publishing, 2013

[2] https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/rock_talk/goliath_-_burbage_south-320366?v=1#x4728664