James Pearson Climbs The Quarryman (5.13b)

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Watch James Pearson on The Quarryman (E8, 5.13b), an iconic four-pitch slate route established by British climbing legend Johnny Dawes in the 1980s. Pearson describes the route as, “one of the most-beautiful climbing pitches I’ve ever done in my life, and 100% man-made.”

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