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General Climbing Discussion

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New hard route at Araps 5-Nov-2012 At 9:57:54 PM Dave J
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Greg Pritchard named and graded Somalia some time ago (early 90s), following on from the "India: It wouldn't exist without aid" and "Ethiopa: Requires even more aid than India" with "Somalia: They'll shoot you if you even try and aid it" and grading it bang on at 33 (in spite of never having been on it or climbed within even 10 grades of that and a decade or two before that grade even existed in australia). Fairly visionary stuff I reckon, and whilst I'd stop short of saying Greg should have given given a bit more space to snag the first ascent. Its still my preferred choice of name. Obviously its Wiz's call. This is just my vote.

And hats off to Zac for getting Wiz on it even when he was close to doing it himself. A proper gentleman climber.

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