Today, the Brit Grit Boys staged the start of the fight back in the wake of the recent Team America onslaught. In a stunning ground-up effort over the weekend a trio of well-known upwardly mobile gents laid siege on The Promise, James Pearson’s Burbage North test-piece.

Ex-Sheffield climber Pete Robins together with Llanberis local Jack Geldard travelled over to the Peak for some grit action in the company of Peak local Ben Bransby and headed straight to Burbage North. By Sunday lunch-time, they’d clocked up a couple or three dozen falls between them, two ‘ground-up’ ascents and lost considerable skin! Pete and Ben left with their tick, Jack, after fighting a brave battle left to lick his blooded and battered finger tips. And as they left, another Grit maestro, John Roberts rolled up looking like he was a man with a plan!