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\nKolus E8 6c,\u00a0 the beautiful line\u00a0redpointed by Dave Macleod on june Saturday 20, is located in the remote\u00a0Seana Mheallan at Torridon, Scotland, and was attempted by Dave Cuthbertson, a gifted scottish climber of the 80s.
\nIn fact \u00a0Dave Cuthbertson told\u00a0to David \u00a0years ago about a really outstanding quality arete project he\u2019d been trying that would be E8 7a at least. He spoke about it several times, and eventually told\u00a0him \u00a0where it was and to go and try it.
\nMacleod redpointed\u00a0 Kolus after an attempt top-rope. The route is protected only by a cam and a nut.The E8 6c is roughly equivalent to French 8a+ climbing, but on trad gear.
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\nThis is the comment od David on his blog:
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\n" I got a bit of a fright snapping an important pebble foothold off at the crux on my last toprope practice. Scary stuff. Thank god it wasn\u2019t on the lead. Jamie said he got a bit nervous when some really big gusts of wind were whipping around the arete just as I was heading for the crux on the lead. It was really windy but it amazed me how the second I started climbing, the wind didn\u2019t even register in my consciousness. For me, everything was completely silent until I was holding the jug on the lip of the slab".
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\nDave Macleod is one of the best Scottish climbers of the last generation. On his curriculum, lots of sport and trad routes of a very high profile, up to 9a and 8a+ onsight, dry-tooling itineraries as Vertical limits M11\u00a0at Uschinen in Switzerland.\u00a0\u00a0
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\nOn Ben Nevis North Wall, he recently realized Echo wall F8c+,\u00a0and near Glasgow\u00a0completed\u00a0\u00a0the first ascent of Rhapsody, the hardest traditional route in the UK, the last bastion of dangerous rock climbing. At E11 7a, Rhapsody requires 5.14c climbing with 70-foot fall potential.
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