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Fiona Russell

Iconic boulder problem in UK’s Peak District climbed for only the second time- 12 years after the first ascent

Climber's hand on rock.

A notoriously challenging bouldering problem in the UK’s Peak District has been ascended for only the second time. It took 12 years for another climber to successfully repeat the highly technical Smiling Buttress route.

Alex Moore, from Manchester, England, finally repeated the boulder climb, which includes two tricky sloped holds on a gently overhanging wall, earlier this month near the Derbyshire village of Curbar.

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