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This collaboration between adventure film makers Alastair Lee and David Halsted has become one of the most significant British climbing films in years. The film charts the routes of arguably the world's greatest traditional climber, Dave Birkett, and his remarkable passion for climbing and the pursuit for a magical line on his beloved Lakeland crags. Featuring the first ascent of 'Return of the King' E9 6c, Dave's latest addition to Scafell's East Buttress - just one of many Lakeland masterpieces, including the extraordinary "Nowt Burra Flee'in Thing" (E8 6c) - Cam Crag, Wasdale Screes; a stunningly evocative line.
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00:00I thought I'm gonna go and have a look at this crag and yeah I went up there and
00:04was completely and utterly blown away by it.
00:15I kind of forgot about camcrast until yeah a couple of years ago when you went
00:18back there and bloody hell why didn't they do this route straight away because
00:25it's just so utterly fantastic the more time you spend walking around the hills
00:47the more time you actually now prefer these little kind of hidden away gems
00:56yeah just like little forgotten corners or secrets that the over-touristed or
01:02overpopulated lake district doesn't really have many of anymore and well you
01:07won't see anybody else
01:11you are definitely the first person to touch anything or even stand at the
01:16bottom of it almost even kind of look at you know and yeah it's quite special and
01:21that little bit of wilderness we kind of kid ourselves that we've got in the lakes
01:27yeah they're very hard to find
01:40yeah really obvious challenges aren't you know the fantastic lines they're not contrived they're just
01:45so bloody hard that nobody else has ever done them
01:48i think everybody gets themselves fired up differently and uh you get a lot of people
01:52out with the power screams on routes
01:55i can't do it at all
01:56very american that yeah i think i'd fall off laughing
01:59i'm having to slap a little bit for a hole generally going wrong a little bit
02:04have you ever had a belay going go on send it yeah
02:10oh man you'd get lower down a bunch of money i don't think i could ever get to the top
02:15of
02:15something and go yeah i don't know i just haven't got that in me

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