Bambi M9, Never Never Land
Rob Gibson making a big move on the first ascent of Bambi M9 Photo: Rob Pitt
With the North Wales scene buzzing at the prospect of the early arrival of winter, Rob Gibson has climbed the dry tooling project line in the Monkey Bar area of Never Never Land in the Dinorwig slate quarries.
Bambi M9 takes the obvious steep line left of Ibex (the original M8 climbed by Pete Harrison in 2009).
Rob explains the deal:
“Powerful and reachy climbing utilizing the shallow flake system above the tunnel entrance, with a couple of exciting ‘designer danger’ run outs. Figure-four the right hand shot hole to start, and straight away move into a series of very tenuous and powerful locks up the flake system until an all-out launch leftwards leaves you pondering the drop. Another powerful lock up leads to a move back right, the last bolt, and a lonely lead to the chains.”
