Exporting the Radness

After crashing and burning his fingers and his knee, Pete has decided the NZ stratosphere is too restrictive for his exponentially mushrooming radness. Thus he is exporting himself to spread radness around the globe. Stay tuned for updates as he attempts to communicate the radness to Nepalese Yak herders and inebriated Ozstraaleeans.

Crash and Burn

That's right motherfucker! Just when you thought Pete had Crashed and Burned he comes wandering in out of the dust with a bagload of ruckus, psyche overflowing from the engorged pockets of his cargo pants, and radness sparkling everywhere and campusses his way unintelligibly up this powerful Quantum testpiece. Good job Pete.

Rumor has it that if you go to the coast and listen to the wind you can hear it whispering "the radnesssssss".

Paranoia

Question: What use is a rock climber with no fingers?
Answer: No use whatsoever.

Pete the Radness may well come face to face with the reality of such questions if his fingers do not soon evolve into the steel talons thjat the radness seems to demand. You see, the Radness cannot be restrained for long, and with Pete's fingers stretched to the limit of cellular connectivity, it seems that somethings going to blow. Lets hope not. Surely Pete has not used up a lifetime of radness in just a few years, but then again...having seen him climb, maybe he has.

Quote of the day:
"I'm all out of Pete."

Growing the Radness into Madness and Badness with not a touch of Sadness

Today the Radness was pushed towards madness by the howling of the tempestuous winds, but the Radness was too strong and prevailed. In fact, apparently the Radness is "stronger than Death himself". Which is pretty darn strong. Amidst the wind, the Radness had the grace to touch the top of several blessed problems - Pete's SS (with the obligatory Bristol Heel) put up by a Pete with lesser Radness, Trifecta Left V8(done with more technique than you can poke a stick at) and Basilisk V8 (originally climbed by Derek but recently claimed by Seb as 'Porky') which, just in case you were wondering, he campused.

Quote of the day:

Paddles-That suspended boulder might even be radder than Pete.
Pete-Steady on.

All in all, it is clear that the Radness is pretty rad. Could he be any radder? Maybe just a fraction. Like if he could actually kill retards just by looking at them and thinking 'you are a retard I wish you'd die'.

How to get the Radness Tip #37

If you see a bunch of hippies doing some stupid seance in the middle of a bouldering area what do you do? If you seek the Radness then of course you run naked through the middle of their circle and frolic in the pond of course! Get out there and frolic people!

The Radness enters Interstellar Overdrive

Today the Radness was especially rad. Despite his pale and sickly appearance he was able to crush the bejesus out of any holds sent his way. His bulbous forearms certainly came to the party and then left abruptly once the party couldn't get any louder. Apparently they'll be away for a while.

Pete managed to send his long-term project (and everybody elses long term project for that matter) at Flock Hill, naming it Interstellar Overdrive (after the Floyd track). It clocks in at a whopping V11 and is sure to be wanting a repeat for a while. Pete sent it in fine Pete the Radness style, shaking all the while, pretending to be using his feet but actually not, forgetting his sequence at the crucial moment and then just campusing and not letting go. Quote of the moment "I am infinitely strong".

Pete then declared his retirement for a two week radness-gestation period. But how long can you hold the radness down? Estimates of how long his hiatus will last range from four minutes to six days. What poor unfortunate set of holds will Pete bring the Radness to bear on next? Only time will tell...

How Rad is the Radness?

Here's how rad... according to the completely infallible website of wisdom 8a.nu, in the calendar year of 2006 Peter 'climbed' 132 boulder problems 7A (V6) or harder, most of them harder...That's more than one every three days. That is pretty friggin rad. When asked about taking time to rest The Radness replied "I can't rest, when I sleep I try and climb Powerlines and that problem is quite hard".

Okay so its not quite as rad as Dani Andrada's 1000 8a/8As, but that wasn't in a year, and at least Pete still has his girlfriend (hard luck Dani).