Charlie Woodburn climbs E8 on "most awesome wall of rock in the UK"

Watch Charlie Woodburn make a second ascent of the amazing looking Skye Wall (E8 6b).
This hard trad route is located on the remote Coir' Uisg Buttress and was first climbed by Dave Birkett in 2007, who described it as the "most awesome wall of rock in the UK".
Charlie first tried the route in 2011 with Tim Emmett and then went back in 2014 with filmmaker Dom Bush to climb the route and make this short film. The film was originally on BMC TV and is now here on KZbin.
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[@JamesMacdonald-b9h]

the skilled ceilidh dancing at the end is the highlight

[@MrMonero]

Aah that road down to Elgol Harbour is amazing. I never tire of seeing it come into view. I have dwindled away many hours of my life down there. One of my fav places to be when I head down to visit Skye.

[@chriscook1962]

Blown away by the incredible camera work (and everything else!) inspirational !!

[@trickeyt.v96]

This is awesome....! Thanks

[@stevehorner8302]

Real climbing , real adventure

[@alpinejonny]

What a great video! The setting, narration, and music was just perfect!

[@antifascist7818]

Excellent thanks

[@richied1939]

Fantastic little film, the dancing looked particularly exhausting...

[@Ian-gl4xb]

Good vid. One things for sure your ability to to drink whisky is much greater than dancing in time with the music. ;-)

[@vSTExx]

STUNNING!! Totally awesome video and amazing place to climb, wish to go there one day! More like this please!

[@anoshya]

Great skill!!

[@vinilindinho]

Loved it! And the line looks so beautiful! :D

[@uberjava]

After several weeks of lockdown, this was the latest video to succumb to my constant crawling on YT. I've never climbed trad, I've only ever climbed indoors as it's a new activity to my old body. The more and more of this sort of video I watch, makes me want to climb outdoors. The more and more parkour like indoor boulder problem comps I see, the more I realise how that genre of climbing is certainly not for me. Beautiful little film.. :-) ... thank you.

[@robertnewell4054]

Be it Traditional Climbing or Sport, outdoor is where it’s at. UK Climbing has such a great & grand history. Get out there my man & climb REAL ROCK.

[@christianvollenhoven]

Trad is truly special, routes that are the same physical difficulty as a sport 6a will leave so much more of an impression on you.

[@ezrabyrne3793]

Brilliant film. Really enjoyed that

[@MrSilencetreatment]

8:30 that is what we call perfect weather in Scotland

[@leewilliams6174]

Brilliant

[@djvongola]

what's the name of the intro music?

[@scotthill2109]

I second that request.

[@frederickmagill9454]

👍👍👌👌

[@5slide]

I hope it was Talisker you were drinking 🥃

[@Totalavulsion]

This guy sounds exactly the same as Jerry Moffat

[@lewisadams2297]

Amazing person extream no fear of love for you dream

[@FlatOutFE]

Can anybody explain how E8 and 6b are related?

[@elterpress]

Hey. 6b is the technical grading system you get in the UK - not to be mistaken with the french sport climbing grade 6b (seen in climbing walls and bolted cliffs). Confusing I know. A 6b sport climb is easier than a 6b trad climb by some margin. This route is graded E8 6b - E8 gives an indication of the overall difficulty, exposure and danger. 6b is the difficulty of the hardest move.

[@FlatOutFE]

@@elterpress, thanks for the explanation.

[@stephenr80]

It is more or less a 7b+/7c+ in french scale if you consider how hard it is. About the exposure grade, it is difficult to say theres no indicator like that in other scales as far as I know is only in the uk scale.

[@adegill9468]

Really strange watching this film,I first went climbing there when I was 11 with my brother and my step dad called Stan winstanley, we used to practice on that ?? Those days you didn't bother to put it in the guide books...in are teenage years,we put loads of routes around there..living on powered egg most days...so I look and think I and my brother were there first ..the huts great to stay in..oh the yr was 1969, we climbed every year up there till late 1970 s..good film though...did make me smile.... Ha Ha...

[@REVERSE_BIAS]

0:50 Surely eating a pile of rope for breakfast isn't good for you?!?!

[@JohnWedderburn]

They are probably getting the salt off the ropes, rather than eating them.

[@Totalavulsion]

One thing I learned: cows will eat almost anything

[@thewaytruthlife1230]

Yes! certainly the ones that roam ALL over India do. PEACE.

[@RangerCaptain11A]

now its clear why europeans climb with a double rope system! those routes can wander a bit.

[@robertnewell4054]

More Brit than Euro. I climbed on double ropes for over a decade. For numerous reasons (like the one you mentioned) it’s my preferred system when doing Traditional Climbing

[@malcopops4]

You can abseil twice the distance too

[@colinhopkins8009]

Too many “natural history “ shots, not really enough detail of Skye Wall climbing.