Lucy Creamer

“UK Climbing Interview, UKClimbing”

“On one hand you know you can hang around and recover to work things out, but hanging around too long and half-trying a move over and over again depletes your power levels.”

“Mentally commit 100%. Redpointing requires a different approach to onsighting and you need to change your mindset. I am not a natural redpointer as I want things to happen quickly: I’m not particularly patient. But I’ve learnt that the routes do come if you persist and train appropriately. Once you can do all the moves on a project, it’s a case of trying to link them together in longer overlapping sections. It’s surprising how quickly this stage can come together.”