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Elephant Hunting

Grade
19
Length
35m
Natural pro required
Quality
2.01
First ascent
Gerard Tarr and a very patient Jenny Byrne Feb. 2012
Located on
Elephant Buttress
Topo ref
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Elephant Hunting: an overwrought expedition into the darkest depths of the
unknown.
Pitch 1 and the left hand grade 13 finish can be linked. Descend by the fixed
rope down
the gully at the back of the climb or in two abseils via the manuka tree
belay.

  • P1
  • 19
  • 35m
  • Trad

Aesthetic slab with a left slanting seam into a flaring chimney corner, exit this (crux) then climb up and right to belay at the manuka tree. Spaced but adequate protection.

  • P2
  • 15
  • Trad

Traverse right to a ledge then follow either a crack on the left up to a flax bush (13) or finish right up a right facing corner crack (15).

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