Daniboy - Sent by Danny Boy !

Well, I did it!

Hoorah, hooray, woo hoo!!!

Me being super stoked after the send!

So that's my goals for the trip complete! Awesome hey! I've been eating way too much and drinking far too much beer lately! It's ok I earned it.

So as you may all recall from a few blog posts a while ago I got really really close to sending when Warwick was here. I took a break and worked on Marci Marc (video coming soon!!), then once that went down (!), it was back to Daniboy.

Cutting loose in the roof section

So after a rest day we hiked up the monsterous hill, after warming up on Les Amazones (6c), one of my favourite 'easy' climbs, I jumped straight on, with the intention of getting it done. I felt really strong early on in the climb, hitting all the moves perfectly and moving quickly between rests.

Knee bar in the roof

Final rest before the crux

I blasted through the crux, hitting the three finger pocket, then the two finger pocket accurately, a few moves later I was clipping off the mono pocket, still feeling good. Then all of a sudden I started to panic, thinking 'oh my god, I'm going to get this thing', what can I say, I wasn't expecting it on the first shot of the day...... I very shakily got the last few hard moves, Lee Cujes, from Brisbane, among others cheering me on. I made it up to the chains,  to pumped to clip straight away, I kept everyone on their toes, by swapping hands, shaking out, before swapping back and clipping the anchor chains! Success at last! It felt great.

Lowering off, a smile on my face

I'd like to thank, Dovi for the belays and photos, Dale and Warwick for the belays and Lee and Sam Cujes for the support!

Finally thanks to everyone for following my blog,

An English bloke got some more photos of me, which he will send in a week or two. Stay tuned for those, and the upcoming Marci Marc blog.