The Stuff Of Nightmares

Climbing Gold

Duct Tape Then Beer

Wilderness, Sports

4.9 • 983 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

British trad climbing might be the most unique flavor of all. Is it an audacious game of risk or merely a fast track to a Darwin award? In 2000, while following in the footsteps of his heroes, a young James McHaffie booted up in front of the famed Masters Wall and launched upwards. What followed was a four hour fight for survival. Hazel Findlay helps supply perspective on the strange craft of British trad.

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0:00.0	Hazel, this is your actual house in Wales?
0:05.4	Yeah.
0:06.4	So excited, you're so adult.
0:08.2	I know, I'm such an adult, though.
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:10.5	So weird.
0:12.0	January 20, 22.
0:14.2	So you, though.
0:14.8	You're way more advanced on the adulting scale than me.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:19.4	You're like ready to be father and stuff.
0:21.8	Yeah, I'm older too, right?
0:24.2	He's a family interview.
0:25.3	Yeah, a bit.
0:26.0	You've 35 now?
0:27.2	I'm 36.
0:28.6	All right.
0:29.8	Yeah, see, I've got a head start.
0:30.6	I'll be 33 this year.
0:31.7	Oh, yeah, see, there you go.
0:33.1	Okay, we're rolling.
0:34.9	Hazel, will you give us the basics?
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