Adam Hocking
I started climbing in the Borrowdale Valley (the lake district) when i was 14 with another friend. After a few years of trial and error (and building a rack with my school dinner money) I started to improve in my climbing.
After the first year i managed to climbed up to E6( not very safely), a year later i became British Junior indoor champion and carried on competing with the British team for a few years. Over those years i started putting up first ascents which really interests me such as Disorderly Conduct E8 6c, Code Breaker E7 6c and many more in and around my local valleys.
Adam top roping on the bold arete that was top become 'The Keswickian' E8 7a....Gouther Crag...Ph Dom Bush...
Later i moved to Wales and got stuck into the bouldering and slate scene there. Over a 5 year period i did many first ascents on the boulders including, Hippocampus 8a+(Tan y Grisiau) Kingdom of Pain 8a (sheep pen), Breathe 8a, (Roadside) and many, many more. I have now moved back to the lake district and intended to try to repeat and add routes but also try some more hard mixed trad onsights on the bigger walls around the world.
Climbing CV
Some of my traditional climbing has included, The Keswickian E8 7a 1st ascent (gouther crag), disorderly conduct E7 6c (reecastle) The Ego has Landed E8 6b 2nd ascent (eagle crag)1st ascent, Bleed in hell E8 6c 2nd ascent,(bowdersone crag) Berlin wall E8 6c 2nd ascent (Nescliffe), The Technician E7 6c 1st ascent (Long Band), The Code breaker E7 6c 1st ascent (black wall), The Guernsey Double E6 6b onsight 1st ascent (gull sawn) also the last line up napes needle sick hard shiver e6 6b 1st ascent and many more.
In bouldering i have climbed such problems as, Hippocampus 8a+( Tan y Grisiau) 1st ascent, Kingdom of pain 8A 1st ascent (Sheep Pen), Jerrys left hand 8a 1st ascent(Sheep Pen), The Big Link (Bowderstone) 8a 1st ascent, Breathe 8a 1st ascent (Roadside) and Super Yum Yum 8a 1st ascent (Carrick Fell), The Funk 7c+ 1st ascent (Clogwyn y Tarw ), Twighlight of the Idols 7C? (above Jerrys Wall in the pass)1st ascent.
Lots more repeats up to 8a+ and many more first ascents.
In sport climbing i have climbed up to 8b+ these included routes like El ball del triceps 8b (Margalef), El club de la lucha 8b+(Wildside), Magnitic Fields 8b(Malham) and the Medium 8a+(welsh slate) Explicit Scenes of Sex and Violence 8a (Lakes slate) and onsighted 15+ 8a. routes like Unzungu 8a (Loja), Pepe el Boludo 8a (El Chorro), Watermark 8a (Sella Wildside), Asamblea de Mojaras 8a (Gandia) and more
I have also climbed on the chalk cliffs (dry tooling) . On-sighting many of the routes up to C9
