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Manufacturing 16-Jun-2005 At 3:51:28 PM Onsight

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Don’t worry M8. The point was of course is that it’s all relative.

On 16/06/2005 dalai wrote:
>Not saying 28 is hard, just that the couple of moves in the middle 'spoil'
>an otherwise nice route...

I disagree. The crux on India definitely didn't "spoil" it for me, however I certainly think it would have been "spoilt" - and a huge mistake - had someone chipped it down to 26.

This sort of chipping is outright stealing from the future of the sport. It leaves those climbers of the future a big fat nothing (bouldery or otherwise). Everyone thought India was hard (or still do – whatever) and it was cutting-edge in its day, but honestly, now it’s far from it. In the future climbers here might be looking for 36's, 37's, and beyond. Just because many of us mightn't be able to climb anything like that hard, or even envisage it, doesn't mean swat.