★★ The Obituary 14

Grade context: AU
Length: 30m
Ascents: 664

description

Major corner crack and a popular all trad line. Beware, the route name is apt - there have been a couple of fatalities on this route. If in doubt don't run it out.

Route history

1974	First ascent: B.Blunt & J.Lorinez

Grade citation

14	Assigned grade
14	★★ Rockclimbs in the Upper Blue Mountains
16 [15 - 16] ++	grAId

ethic

Many and varied, please try to respect them all!

Retro-bolting has occurred several times over the years and is generally condemned and dealt with swiftly.

inherited from Mount York

Tick Types

Onsight	181	181
Flash	29	29
Red point	28	28
Tick	118	118
Pink point	3	3
Attempt	10	10
Target	2	2

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Selected Guidebooks more Hide

Blue Mountains Climbing Guide

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079082

The latest comprehensive, latest and greatest Blue Mountains Climbing Guide is here and it has more routes than you can poke a clip stick at! 3421 to be exact. You are not going to get bored.

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Best Of The Blue Blue Mountains Select Guide

Author(s): Simon Carter

Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780958079075

Simon Carter's "Best of the Blue" is the latest selected climbing guide book for the Blue Mountains and covers 1000 routes and 19 different climbing areas. For all the sport climbers out there, the travellers, or just anyone who doesn't want to lug around the big guide that's more than 3 times the size - cut out the riff-raff and get to the good stuff! This will pretty much cover everything you need!

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