Mountaineer Alan Hinkes talks to Yorkshire Post photographer, James Hardisty about how he first got into rock climbing at Brimham Rocks.
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00:00 Hi, Alan Hinks here and I'm at Brimham Rocks and this is one of the first places I ever
00:08 came rock climbing when I was at Northallet and Grammar School. It's gritstone, it's a
00:11 fantastic place, it's like a super adventure playground as well, it's brilliant. It's in
00:16 Yorkshire and so it's fabulous to be back here and looking at some of the climbs I first
00:21 did and I'm going to make sure I come back and do them again. It's brilliant.
00:25 Well Brimham Rocks here, this is pure rock climbing. It's gritstone, there's a lot of
00:29 good friction on it. It's a great place to start rock climbing, it's also a great place
00:32 to do really difficult technical climbs, some of the hardest climbs you can find here. But
00:37 this is different to mountain climbing, this is pure rock climbing. But you need this rock
00:41 climbing skill on a mountain because there's bits of rocks, bits of snow, bits of ice,
00:46 encompasses all of it on a big mountain. Brimham Rocks is a great place to come to learn rock
00:52 climbing and practice rock climbing. This is one of the first rock climbs I ever did
00:56 at Brimham Rocks. This is Lover's Leap Chimney, it's not a particularly difficult climb but
01:01 to the left of it, over there, up the wall is a more difficult climb which is graded
01:07 very severe, VS. There's lots of harder climbs than that now. So these are two of the very
01:11 first rock climbs I ever did when I was at school.
01:14 [Climbing sounds]