wow that was interesting, attempting to register whilst not understanding a word of German.
First of all i would like to apologise for speaking in English, although i have spent over 4 months in germnay, i was more interested in cake, Beer, climbing and Girls than learning German.
This topic has come up on the British site of Ukbouldering.com so i thought id check it out.
I would like to discuss the comment made by Rosta
21 times: i really didn´t see you there. I only saw fabian (and mona probably) leaving in his car as he has probably seen me comming there (white ford transit). i have spent there about an hour.
I would like to confirm that Both myself and Markus Bock where stood beneath this route for a considerbale amount of time on the day in question, yet saw no signs of Rosta or anyone else for that matter, Unless of course he came disguised as a deer.
If rosta was to see Fabian leaving the parking, then he would have only arrived at teh rock about 5 minutes after me and Markus, because as we arrived we also spoke with Fabian before walking to the rocks. Therfore his accounts cannot be true. Myself and Markus spent at least 40 minutes at this route looking and talking and did not see rosta their.
Therfore i feel that rosta has not climbed this route, if he still claims to have done it on that day at that particular time.
I have no reason to lie about Rosta, i have never met him, so have no reson to tell lies. I can only say what happened that day, that i didnt see Rosta their, and unfortuanately that looks bad for rosta, who claims he was.
regarding the other routes in question i cannot comment since i have no idea whether he has climbed them or not. All i can say is that i feel when one person has been caught being dishonest (as Rosta has) then he must in future produce solid evidnece that he is now telling the truth, if he cannot or will not then i feel he should not make his claims public anymore.
Thisa is not the first time rosta's honesty has been questioned, it was only a short while ago that he was questioned regarding his acents of new Orleans and a hard boulder problem (i have forgotten the name). I would have thought he would have learnt from this lesson and oprovided video evidence of his future claims, unfortuanately he seams a little slow to let on, but surely now he must change what he sees as acceptable and produce evidence in future.
thanks Richard