Ascents of Samarkand as All free with rest

A great afternoon (in the sun) with Mungo.

I was pleased to climb through the P2 crux after a little rest on the rope depite almost losing consciousness from dehydration. I was also very happy to redpoint the last pitch despite fiddling with gear a lot and getting pumped. I think pitches 1, 3 and 4 are probably only about 20, and pitch 5 might be 21

Rapped in to check it out. Ended up pulling the rope and leading the crux pitch. Pinned off the first few moves on wet holds, them pulled on and lead all pitches to the top. Thanks Match for the endless psyche and great support. Will have to be back at some point to clean up the first pitch which doesn’t look exactly like a classic anyway. The route gets the wow factor for the exposure and bommer gear but id think its definitely a bit easier than some other trad lines at the grade, with climbing being pretty straightforward . Definitely an impressive line and beautiful continuous feature are to merit the stars