Ascensions dans Asia par Josh Ellis

At night after some beer Laos, as is tradition.

Got fully lubed.

Second ascent! Visionary by Jack Heenan, to both bolt and figure out the outrageous moves. 100% would not of onsighted, only flashed thanks to beta from all the boys. 8m of rock but 15m of climbing!

Spicy potato.

Absolute limit lol

Bloody nails!

Another shite day. Blew the onsight, had a melt, lowered down and repeated the crux like 3 times while fuming. Did the full crux sequence from the ground then freaked out at when the rope went round my leg and grabbed the draw, had a helmet on, should of just fell on my head. Think I’m done climbing for this trip, it’s not fun anymore.

Good but heady climbing. Mega onsight by Jordan Edwards!

5 go’s total making it more attempts than any other climb in Laos this trip. After slipping out of the knee bar two more times, I came down untied, retied and channelled the dark side of the force to finish it in the angriest, ugliest, ice-skating, campusing style possible.

So good, but probably too hard for me this trip to be honest.

Didn’t love this crag tbh.

Got surprisingly far on the onsight, found it a bit of a grovel though, made me appreciate how good “special forces” is. Probably won’t spend any time on this one.

This Dan don’t dyno. Thanks to Jordan Edwards for being the sacrificial beta sheep, I owe ya one.

One more beta change then done.

Missed by one move on the flash go. Had Matt spraying me down but should’ve just watched him climb it first rather than climbing the pile of choss to the left. Two more goes out of frustration to try and tick but fingers were too cooked after a day hard crimpin. Poor decision making on the ground cost me the flash and 3 unnecessary pitches worth of skin and energy. Massively pissed at myself as I knew better at the time. Do better.

Top is shite

Miles off on the onsight, went with a fair amount of try hard second shot. Really nice sustained and varied climbing.

Mega, full value line. Will try to finish it off this trip.

Insanely physical warm up!

Bit gutted I dropped the flash, was pretty close, think I just rushed a little. Went pretty smooth second shot. Decent boulder with many sequences available.

Went up to set up a top rope for beer crate stacking, ended up going to the top! Felt pretty chill when finding the right holds/knee bars.

Actually really good and the most obvious line here. Slipped outta’ a knee bar first go, lowered and got it second shot. Classic stitch up sending Jordan Edwards up on second to clean it!

Hardest onsight in Thakek 😂

Awesome, sustained and at the grade almost the whole way. You definitely need every cm of an 80m.

Mega line! Can imagine linking to the top in a couple of goes, can’t imagine ever doing the top on link. Defo whack on a right knee pad next week!

Proper tufa wrestling

Cool boulder, horrendous rock bee harassment

Fought halfway through the roof on the onny. Worked the rest. Second shot on the dark started super crappy but linked from the third roof draw to past the crux so I think if I tidy up the start it should go…

Not too bad when not climbing like a wanker…

Rest day

Another night attempt. Made it a fair bit further but ended up facing 180 degrees the wrong direction! Also found a couple of (thankfully) unoccupied wasps nests.

Having a fucking day…

Rage ground up redpointing on crossly crimps didn’t work.

Bit pumpy

Nice onny by Tommathy swift! Turns on a bit at the end!

Cool sustained crux. Probably even nicer if not hungover…

Outrageous terrain for the grade! Well worth a look. Even more exciting at night over a fire a few beer Laos deep!

Xmas eve roof party night climbing fun!

Punted.

Xmas eve roof party night climbing fun!