Northeast Slabs

Start down and to the left by a stump and small blocks. Climb thin flakes for a few metres then move right to join Dissection by the jutting flake.

Start just left of the corner and climb up level with the jutting flake. Follow the thin cracks and flakes up the slab, past a small shrub. Move left under the large overhang to finish.

Down and left is a stand of manuka by a corner. Start right of the corner, gain the ledge at 2m then follow the arete to a ledge. Finish up Fingertips.

Three metres to the left of Shiva is a rightward tending crack. Gain the flakes above the crack and follow to the crack’s closure. Reach up to an edge below a white scar, mantle onto this and gain the ledge above. Move left two metres and climb a short groove to the top.

Gain the ledge as for Bastille. Follow the left ward slanting crack to large pointed flake. Follow the crack on its right-hand side.

To find this route head about six metres left, just past a small manuka. Gain the ledge at 2m. climb the pocketed wall right of the left ward slanting crack. No pro.

Follow the left ward slanting edge and crack. Variation: At 2m climb direct past the jutting flake (15).

Two metres to the left of Flake Out, is a left ward slanting edge. Start at the foot of this and climb to a pointed flake, gaining it from the right. Ascend the skyline V notch above. Variation: Climb the flake direct at its lowest point (17).

Start beneath the hanging flakes at the righthand side of the slabs. Climb beneath a flake to reach a higher fl ake which forms an overhang. This is surmounted using the bisecting crack.