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  3. South Island
  4. Canterbury
  5. Banks Peninsula
  6. Mount Evans
  7. Mainline Cliff

Mainline Cliff

(9 routes)

is on the same level and to the R of Martyr Cliff. The first routes are on the smaller LH buttress.

Type: 
Wall
Reference Title Grade Length Quality Bolts Gone Natural pro Link to edit content
Caveat Emptor 15
0
 wire representing trad
Climb the slightly angling LH crack, then move L 2m and up through two bulges.
Norman & Jo Ragg, Alan Hill 2001
The Gantry 9
0
The broad rib R of the honeycombed crack.
Hamish Reid (solo) 2000
Birth 7
0
 wire representing trad
V corner with shrub to the R.
Lindsay Main 1977
From Here To Maternity 11
0
The slabby arete just to the R.
Hamish Reid, solo 2000
Sideline 16
0
 wire representing trad
Start to the R at the foot of the buttress. Climb bouldery groove, or up the arete to the R, then LW trending jam crack to ledge. Step R and up short steep slab.
Alan Hill & Frazer Munro 2000
Mainline 16
0
 wire representing trad
The obvious jam crack on the L of the main buttress, crux through bulge.
Henry Mares 1977
Shot In The Arm 17
1.02
 wire representing trad
To the R is a zigzag crack feature. Through the bulge, hard traverse move L to finish up RW trending groove.
Alan Hill & Frazer Munro 2000
Trunk Line 18
1.02
 wire representing trad
The crack system up the RH edge of the buttress.
Alan Hill 2000
Masters Of Thrutch 20
0
 wire representing trad
Around the corner is an obvious right-leaning jam crack with shrub at the top.
Alan Hill and Richard Kimberley 2002