Steve McClure makes epic climb of 6-pitch Verdon 8b super route 

Good effort!

Mullac Odw ll

Love me some quality Steve Mac banter!

Thomas Ditsas see above video.

my poor cats jumped all over the place hahaha

They must’ve placed then when rappelling down the cliff

And another 50 on @justbombergear's instagram. Metal on metal is a great start...

I reckon when he proving to anyone 40+ they can still climb hard or indeed still enjoying climbing at all he's doing a public service

2cofitb he thought it was 7B.... should have been a walk in the park for him... lol

The heal rand on the anasazi blanco's is so strong that you don't really need laces. :)

Philipp Puchner I'm not sure I get that, I know your quickdraw gate should face away from the direction you traverse in, but going up, how would the rope unclip?

Philipp Puchner , on an anchor point your gates should face opposite directions, it's in every climbing book I've ever read on anchors.

I'm talking about a quickdraw in the middle of the route, not 2 carabiners next to each other in sport climbing anchors. How did you get that idea? Watch the video and watch closely at all quickdraws: I wrote it before but somehow clicked away so my whole writing with the exact time + good or bad and why is gone. So I jus twrite this overview now. Sometimes the gates of the carabiners of the quickdraws in this video, don't face the same direction! But they should be! Also the gates should face away from the direction of climbing, so that the rope runs obove the spine of the carabiner when moving upwards. In this video, it is not everytime the case. If climbing straight up, it doesn't matter. Also, if you climb slightly to the left or to the right, it should be ok. It is not always possible to keep the directions perfectly, because you choose the direction of the gates when placing the quickdraw. And when you place it, you look up to where the next bolt is and where you approximately climb. But sometimes you climb to the left and to the right side before reachung the next bolt. Or you miscalculated and ended beeing to the other side you thought you'd be. Not extreme danger here. But there are certain places where the bolt is not at an ideal place and you don't want it to fail on any circumstances: Use 2 quickdraws, one to the left and one to the right, or a "safe lock" quickdraw, where both carabiners lock itself and are impossible to unlock itself. I have one of those, I use two Edelrid sliders for that (even the clipping of the rope is quite ok).

You're right, I didn't catch that the first time, how about those back steps though!

is there any evidence the direction of the bolt gate matters? stats on climbing accidents are hard to come by, so i might be mistaken here. but i've at least never come across or heard of bolt gates becoming undone. in terms of 'biggies', the one thing we do see in (almost) every climbing video and (almost) all of us are doing ourselves is climbing w/o a helmet...

Yep Steve never does his laces up.