Franco elevates his reputation from annoying Yorky upstart, to local legend done great, a Proper bit of hard climbing on a route with fearsome credentials.
Another thing that he's given back to the climbing community is his fantastic guidebook to the North York Moors, which is an absolute labour of love. Feels like an area that's been elevated from an esoteric backwater into...well...a slightly less esoteric backwater 😅
We should set up some sort of crowd funding to get him out of the North York Moors - or in this case North Wales - and onto hard slabs across the world. Having seen Fall Theory, there's no denying whatever footage would come back from it would be a sight to behold - even if it would be moderately terrifying!!
