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In an era where searching out and developing new routes seems out of vogue, all is not lost as we meet Anna Taylor. This remarkable, Lakes-based, 20 year old is bucking all the tends with stunning new sport routes and bold traditional lines. Including a nervy introduction to deep water soloing by climbing partner Neil Gresham, the film follows Anna's pioneering journey to confront one of the UK's great unclimbed lines.
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00:00There's some pads down there but they're just miles down.
00:03The thing about this route, it's not like some sort of extended high ball boulder problem,
00:07it's a route, you're at the top of a gritstone crag.
00:10After getting so close on the Uret every time and then choosing to drop off the route and walk away,
00:15I couldn't really bring myself to do it again.
00:17I didn't want to walk away from another route that I knew I was physically capable of doing
00:21just because I was a bit scared.
00:23Again, I was starting to question what I was really doing,
00:26putting myself in that situation and did I really want to be there or not.
00:30I kind of eventually came to the conclusion that I would seriously rather get hurt trying to do this route
00:36and know that I've properly tried than just drop off and walk away again.
00:40I really couldn't do that.
00:55Well, you know what sort of

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