Ascents climbed between 2014-01-01 and 2014-12-31 as various tick types by CElliott

Crag-lovers mega-classic. A good first route in Soqotra.

Mega-classic minus the flake.

The best part of this was seeing Issa's face when he topped out.

Mega-classic. Epic summit bivy in the wind and swirling clouds. Felt like climbing into a myth.

Sketchy and run-out. Repeat not recommended

Climbed the first three pitches in moderately heavy rain and continued up on progressively drying rock. We did the whole route in 6.5 pitches (the half being the scoot across and into Burston's Crevasse)

Oh squeeze chimney/off-width pitch my old nemesis. The hardest grade 14 pitch in the known universe.

Take some wide gear to keep the crux in the final overlap pleasant. I didn't and so whimped on the onsight.

Repeat.

Lol. I weirdly struggled to get to the first bolt. FOURTH attempt lol. Don't tell anyone about this.

Soft tick but I'll take the points. Called "take" but leapt for the jug above just in time.

In sandals

Straightforward. Nice climb

Jugs jugs jugs

Second try. Didn't like the intermediate holds on first attempt so sequenced a throwy move to the jugs above.

A very definite sequence of moves at half-height makes for a V1 crux and bumps this up a grade for sure. Fantastic route. Needs traffic!

Bit muddy down the bottom but great climbing. I enjoyed this. Ran out of quickdraws lol.

Some nails hard moves in here. Quite aesthetic climbing though.

TR laps x 5. To make 10 laps on the whole trip!

TR laps. x3

Repeat

Not bad. I was mega tired on the second last day of the trip and squealed like a pig near the top.

Interesting. Bottom is scary and run out. Top involves interesting fist jams and equally run out if you thought it looked like a hand crack and brought only yellow cams!!!

Absolutely and utterly ungradeable! Squirm like an eel through the greatest body chimney ever. Like the Squeeze Test at Araps but vertical. All the gear is utterly worthless and the chockstones are lethal death traps so don't fall on lead. One of my favourite outings of the trip.

The top is indeed loose and unavoidable. Nevertheless wonderful climbing down low.

Take a #4 for the off-width thrutch-fest up the top. Great climbing

Fantastic line! Thin hands crux an absolute treat! Fantastic!

TR'ed this after onsighting Plume.

Stellar line! Maybe my favourite climb of the trip? The reach for the jug is near-on-dynoey! Soooooooo soooo goooddddd

I secretly enjoyed the horror show squeeze chimney at the end.

Don't do what Donny Don't Did and not take the big gear for the top! Minimum 2 x #4s and a #5 to protect this adequately.

Great movement with bomber finger locks and handjams.

Start only.

Holy shit balls Batman! EPPPICCC. 2 scaredy-cat sits on the crux on the onsight ground-up attempt.

First and only pure face climb of the trip lol

Some passing shanker sprayed some beta at me to pull through the overhang and I'm embarrassed to admit it proved essential ahaha!

A great horror show to top out on this one. Desperate laybacking on tenuous gear above a ledge. Perfect jamming technique required on this one or the crack will spit you out!

Absolutely sensational line! Mindblowing. Save a red cam for the top!

Overrated. Worth climbing only because it is in the shad all day.

Figured out all the moves on top rope but didn't bring gear small enough to go for the lead. Absolutely stellar line linking good jugs with desperate laybacking. More of a face climb really.

Just the hand crack section (21) above the Impulse ledge to get back on LLL.

Quite good. Even enjoyed the V Groove atrocity which constituted a wonderful morning's squirm.

Worthless sandbag. I was attracted to this line because Bill (on the FA) taught me to alpine climb. Absolute atrocity.

Quite good.

Actually there was more than a few moments of spice in this one.

Fantastic. The fist and off-fists sequence at the end was delightful.

Very good technical crack climbing. Fun movement bouncing between two cracks.

Quite good but also quite short. But 10m is a great excuse to take triples and sew the f***er up!

Quite good. Getting to the tree from the ledge is worthless though.

Fourth try. Very difficult thin hands section to reach the bomber hand jam. On the second attempt after a desperate few layback moves I whipped, ripped a cam and landed on my belayer . All in a day's sketching!

We took the guide book's advice and climbed the finger crack only before embarking on a magical adventure linking all the worst parts of the Onlooker's Omelette pillar to access the Theory Ledge.

Great climb. A thoughtful move or two traversing the diagonal into the fist crack. The scene of an overcammed nightmare.

First aid ascent

Classic. If only for the controversy it raised when locals kicked up a stink about what aspect of Darwin it really was on in our reporting. South Face? West Ridge? South Shoulder? Let's call it Darwin's Toe. Nice ice climbing. 44 hour round trip up the glacier, up the plod, up the ice, down and out.

Amazing grovel. Is there anything more badass than offwidth thrutching with one arm and whacking frozen grass with an ice axe in the other?

Flat crux hold required some gnarly effort to stay with it. Cut loose, toes barely off the ground. Skim skim skim. Send!

After a massive snow dump probably M3- in these conditions. I forgot to bring the rack so I led the entire thing with 2 microcams, a snowstake and a knifeblade piton (including for anchor pieces)... needless to say, knotted slings make bomber anchors.

Good warmup to get into the swing of the ice season. "Don't fall on ice"