Clean slabs and appealing cracklines beckon amidst the vegetation.
To descend, scramble down vegetated banks at the east (upvalley) end of the cliff.
Routes
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| 1 | 1Baby Elephant, 17 | 17 | 40m |  |
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An awkward-looking, left-sloping crack and corner at the left end of the lower tier. It’s just left of the large slabby buttress with a horizontal break at half height. |
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| 2 | 2White Elephant, 20 | 20 | 40m | |
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Start at a large groove that divides the slabby buttress, and climb up left to a ledge below a peapod crack. Climb the peapod (crux) and continue up the crack. |
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| 3 | 3Glubetroil, 16 | 16 | 40m | |
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As for White Elephant to the ledge. Next, move right and up on to a spike to gain a ledge above and right (crux). Carry on up and just right of the rib to easy ground. |
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| 4 | 4Hanging Garden Chimney, 12 | 12 | 50m | |
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The vegetated chimney system a short distance right of the Elephant climbs.
Climb steep vegetation to gain the chimney, which is climbed to a chockstone and a mud ledge belay.
Climb on to a ledge from the chockstone, and proceed up steep vegetation to easy ground. |
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| 5 | 5Vegetated Crack, 16 | 16 | 35m | |
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Committing moves on steep vegetation. Follow the crack up the wall to the right of Hanging Garden Chimney. Move left to a ledge below the bulging headwall and walk off. |
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| 6 | 6The Alliance, 22 | 22 | 35m | 1 |
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Not in honour of dehy dinners, but the army that invaded Iraq, and quickly left again, in 1991. Takes the slanting seam across the prominent red wall. Start up Under A Blood red Sky until a traverse left can be made to ledges under the slanting seam. Climb the seam, with small wires and one bolt for protection, to reach the ledge. Belay at the ledge’s left end. |
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| 7 | 7Under A Blood Red Sky, 21 | 21 | 37m | |
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A varied and exciting climb up the crack system on the right of the red wall.
Hand and fist cracks are climbed to a belay ledge beneath the final crack through the bulging headwall. A retreat was made from here just on nightfall on the first attempt (by Grant Davidson, Graham Charles, 12 January 1988).
Climb on to the block, then take a hand and finger crack towards the gaping fissure. Fear not: climb this off-width crack using flakes on the inside of the crack and on the face. |
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| 8 | 8Wham Bam Thanks Saddam, 20 | 20 | 40m | 3 |
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Commemorating the first Gulf War . . . Tackles the black wall just right of Under A Blood Red Sky. Begin at the base of a blocky white buttress: climb the bottom arête delicately past a bolt (crux) to a large ledge. From here, climb the black wall past two more bolts, and traverse up and right to reach thin cracks. At the top of these, move up and right to a ‘root and bolt belay’ as the original guide has it. Walk off. |
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