I had the pleasure of hauling myself up Mr Cassidy’s static rope on the headwall yesterday to get some shots of Will as he continues his ground-up assault on Requiem. You can’t really get much closer than he did without sending it but it made for some good photos. Attempt two of the day was abandoned when the heavens opened leaving me a little wet 80 feet off the ground. Click the images to enlarge.

Here’s a few photos myself and Mike Lee took yesterday sport climbing at Dumbarton. Click the images to enlarge.

Here’s a few photos I took the other night of Will Atkinson on Requiem. Click the images to enlarge.

Lots of people have been down at Dumby lately and quite a lot of stuff going down despite the surprisingly un-Scottish rise in temperature of late.

 

A couple of weeks ago Ross Henighen made the second ascent of Endurance, 8a which was only very recently established by Will Atkinson.

 

The latest addition to the bouldering at Dumbarton, Glasgow Kiss, 7c+, has seen a couple of quick repeats from Andy Shanks and Mike Lee. Malky, and its new variations have now become problems of choice recently with repeats approaching double figures on a problem that, until being cleaned up, had possibly only seen two or three ascents ever.

 

A quick update wouldn’t be complete without a few more ascents of Sabotage, with Stuart Lyle and Dave Redpath both getting their way to the top.

 

Will Atkinson has started his ground-up ascent of Requiem this evening and going on tonights performance in awful conditions (really hot) it shouldn’t be too long before he’s topping out. Here’s a photo I took of him on it. Click the photo to view it full size.

 

I took this yesterday down at Dumby, first time back climbing in three weeks, definitely good to be back. Click the photo to view a larger version.