Tom Randall

Thomas Paul Randalll was born in South Africa and grow in Sheffield UK Hes climbing since he was 16 and he is a keen trad climber and has established many first ascents all over the world mostly involving some kind of crack climbing In 2011 he teamed up with Pete Whittaker to take on the worlds hardest offwidth crack Century Crack which is documented in the film Wide Boyz from Hotaches His current project is to make the first ascent of The Crucifix in the USA A love for first ascents has also taken him around the UK and the world with hard trad routes in Orco and Red Rocks to his name With an appetite for suffering a good sense of humour and endless enthusiasm Tom has also pushed the boundaries closer to home with a string of creative challenges some hard some odd but usually both Tom has also pushed climbing in unusual directions After an injury forced Tom into avoiding crimps he focused on developing crack climbing skills and eventually an offwidth obsession After ticking everything in the UK and some of the hardest routes in Europe there was only one place left to visit A trip to the southwest of the US the offwidth capital of the world resulted in the first ascent of Century Crack 514b the hardest of its kind From the widest of cracks the obvious challenge was then the thinnest After spending months in his now famous training basement a trip to Squamish resulted in an ascent of Cobra Crack 514 I was born in South Africa and spent the following 20 years living in lots of different places due to my parents I think the regular moving around gave me an appetite for change and ever since leaving school Ive never quite been satisfied with staying in one place for more than a few months In recent years Ive specialised in trad and in particular crack climbing This has taken me from the depths of my basement in Sheffield training on wooden cracks to some of the worlds best hard cracks My main passion lies in new routing and exploring new places so as my climbing progresses I naturally look for first ascents and ones that include hard crack climbing Notable Ascents Pura Pura 514c Orco first ascent Century Crack 514b Canyonlands first ascent Cobra Crack 514b Squamish Dinas Crac E9 7a Dinas Rock first ascent Captain Invincible E9 7a Burbage North third ascent Pure Now E9 6c Millstone first ascent Appointment with Death E9 6c Wimberry second ascent MuirCorazon 513b El Capitan free ascent World record for most routes soloed in a day 550 One Infinity8b8A Sallyinthewoods first ascent Masters Edge E7 6b Millstone multiple birthday ascents in fancy dress