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Honnold & Florine break Nose speed record- 2:23:51 21-Jun-2012 At 3:35:28 PM ARidgley

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On 21/06/2012 simey wrote:
>On 21/06/2012 Goshen wrote:
>>Simey; has there been much in way of 'speed' climbing at Arapiles? It's
>>always been a pet project of mine to do a 1000m in a day (7-10 multipitch
>>routes). Obviously running up grade 7's with no gear would be easy;
>but
>>I was thinking a harder mix...
>
>I understand Peter Croft once soloed over 80 pitches of moderate to harder
>stuff one morning at Arapiles. I'm guessing that involved over 1000m of
>climbing. He wasn't trying to break any records though. He was simply a
>enjoying a day out. It would have been around the same era when Peter held
>the speed record on the Nose. Gives you some idea of just how good the
>guys breaking the Nose record have been.

I was lucky enough to witness that on my first ever climbing holiday (November 1985 I think). He and Weigand soloed up and down pretty much every pitch on the organ pipes while I sat in my chair and drank coffee in the Pines. I later saw him hanging off Resignation by one arm chalking up. He sold me some wires he found because "I don't use the stuff". I had no idea who he was at the time.