Weekend Whipper: Hard Grit! The Iconic Fall from Gaia
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Here is possibly the most iconic rock climbing whipper of all time. This is the opening scene to the 1998 cult classic film Hard Grit in which
Frenchman Jean-minh Trin-Thieu goes for Gaia (E8, 6c/5.12dx), a Johnny Dawes gritstone scarefest.
