Johnny Dawes’ 1987 Route Finally Repeated
Many climbers have scene the footage of Johnny Dawes climbing his three-dimensional route called the Quarryman, but less have heard of Dawes’ Coeur de Lion on the same wall.
It has taken 28 years for climbers to piece together Dawes’ Coeur de Lion and it’s no easier now than in 1987. It was one of the hardest routes in the world at the time it was first climbed.
James McHaffie and Pete Robins made the bold second ascent. Johnny Dawes said of Coeur de Lion in his biography, Full of Myself, said, ‘A dramatic swinging leg kick is the only way to move at all: a kick that jolts you for a moment into the heart of a maelstrom where there is potential to move on.”
A few years ago, McHaffie completed Johnny Dawes’ project on the Quarryman wall, The Meltdown, one of Britain’s hardest slab climbs.
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