Hypernova 8a/V11

Written by LakesBloc Monday, 02 June 2008 00:00

Greg Chapman has climbed a cracking new problem at Sampson's Stones in Eskdale. Hypernova tackles the obvious and burley line across the whole of the main face of The Asteroid. Starting up Pulsar the new problem breaks off leftward across the face initially on good handholds but sparse footholds to a tricky drop down, at the halfway point, into the lower holds of Quasar, before continuing left into and up the hardest "straight-up" on the block, Stargazer (7b+/V8 in its own right). Greg dished out the tantalizing grade of 8a/V11 to his new creation, pointing out that the brisk walk-in seems to add to the overall difficulty when on the link!

Image right: Hypernova (8a/V11)