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Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -1982
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Climb the crack that splits the centre of the flaky, orange wall.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -1977
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From a short pedestal at a higher level on the left side of the orange wall, climb the shallow groove and wall above.
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The groove a metre right.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (1979-83)
Rating: 1
Start five metres farther left and climb a thin, overhanging, blocky crack.
Grade: 6c | First Ascent: -1977
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Three metres farther left at a slightly higher level is a faint crack. Climb the wall at this point using shallow pockets.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
Rating: 1
Climb diverging cracks using two obvious jugs to start, then finish up a thin crack.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: (1975-79)
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From a low overlap follow the line of two faint cracks that lead rightwards.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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From the same point, climb the block-filled crack.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -1982
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The next crack, passing a small sentry-box.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (1979-83)
Rating: 2
Start five metres farther left and climb the left-hand of a pair of cracks, passing a small overlap at half-height.
Grade: 6c | First Ascent: (1986-87)
Rating: 1
The faint crack in the wall two metres farther left. A small block is very helpful to start the route and it will be much harder if this disappears.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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Start two metres farther left at a slightly higher level and climb the crack.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: (1974-75)
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Climb the next crack and finish up a short groove.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: (1979-83)
Rating: 1
The thin crack three metres to the left, that finishes up a slim groove.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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Climb the wall via a large jug in a square hole at half-height.
Grade: 6b | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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The faint crack one metre left.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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Climb the next thin crack and the small overlap above.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -2000
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The wall about 1.5 metres left of Knah, with an interesting dyno near the top.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -2000
Rating: 1
The Crack on right-hand side of overlap
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: -2000
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Start at the cracks at the left-hand-side of the overlap to undercuts from where a dyno allows a good jug on left to finish just right of Impo.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
Rating: 1
Start at a lower level directly behind a large rectangular boulder on the floor. Climb the obvious right-slanting crack to an obvious triangular niche. An awkward move then gives access to the short corner above.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -1998
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Climb the wall immediately left of Impo directly to a finish up twin cracks.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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Start directly behind the left end of the rectangular boulder and climb blocky cracks to a deep square hole. Step left and finish uo the wall above.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1998
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Climb the crack two metres to the left, directly to the top via a dubious-looking block.
Grade: 6b | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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Start from the foot of The Young Pretender and traverse right to Var.
Grade: 6b | First Ascent: (1974/1998)
Rating: 2
Climb the corner crack ‘with a variety of leverages that would flabbergast major bridge-building engineers’, to a wild, spreadeagled finish rightwards at the roof.
Grade: A1 | First Ascent:
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Finishes directly over the roof on pegs.
Grade: 6c | First Ascent: -1993
Rating: 2
The arête and overlap on the immediate left.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
Rating: 1
The hand-jam crack on the left.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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The crack just to the left.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: -1986
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The faint hairline crack just to the left.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent:
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Climb directly up the green corner that forms the far left angle of the wall.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: -2002
Rating: 1
The blank wall just left of the corner.
Grade: 4a | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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The right end of the wall, via a large ledge, then finish rightwards.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: (Pre-1948)
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From a small overlap at the foot of the wall climb past a series of small ledges.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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From the left side of the small overlap climb the wall and finish up a thin flake. Proves if you`re a man or a mouse.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: (1975-79)
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A short problem whose fall potential is quite unnerving; climb the wall just right of the arête, stepping in from the left.