10 Oct Tom Randall, Final Round FA

At the end of September, Tom Randall resolved his project in Peak Districk climbing a new 8a+/b trad route on spectacular and selective Ilam Rock, located at Dovedale. For his grade, Final Round is probably the hardest trad route on limestone of Peak.
"I spotted what could be a route of proper hard trad up the centre of the buttress. I saw that you could approach the 3rd-height niche of Eye of the Tiger by a bold sequence direct up the face and then climb through the hard crux and finally finish up a new headwall that I’d established this year. Essentially, taking in all of the hardest climbing and going direct on the centre of the face – no deviations off left or right and no easy climbing."
source ukclimbing.com