Vertical Life

BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW

'I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew?' I tell Saxon sheepishly over a beer at the campsite one evening.

'No, that’s not like you!' he laughs.

Several hours earlier, things had been rather more serious.

We were swinging leads for the second pitch of the Arapiles' classic, Arachnus (8), when I airily informed my better half that I’d never placed a cam before. He stopped passing me bundles of

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