Adam Hocking has climbed a very futuristic looking line on the Wavelength block in the Llanberis Pass. From the shelf on the left side of the boulder a thin, insipient crack line runs out left towards the sanctuary of the hanging left arête.

This was well known as a ‘next level’ project, suitable for some steel fingered mutant. However, Hock applied some lateral thinking to it and managed to concoct a clever sequence reaching under the hanging arête to a hold, and slapping his right hand into the tiny crack hold with the aid of a heel hook on the shelf. He was then forced to abandon the heel hook and make a wild slap onto the arête. Hock reckoned his sequence was very hard, possibly V10/11/7c+/8a, but commented that for taller climbers it would likely be a much more reasonable proposition (i.e. V9/7c), as the heel could be left insitu on the shelf.

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