From Hard Grit, Niall Grimes talking about Seb Grieve falling on Parthian Shot (E9 8a).
"The fall off it was the E9. If [the gear] had've pulled, he'd have had the honour of being killed on an E10, but it held."
That hopefully helps explain a little bit... It is a fantastic grading system for grit routes. It's folly to look at such a route and judge it by what we have in Aus. It's wierd, it's different, it has no bolts, it'll get in your blood. |