Ascents in Kalymnos by Marco de Jongh having sport-cpr or ascent-date

First 7a/23 onsight 🥳

Alzheimers flash, projected this 4 years ago, nice to put it down first go as a warmup this trip

Amnesia onsight, tried this 4 years ago and all I can remember is wanting to buy new quickdraws so I could lower off and not have to climb this.

Cool route, almost came off at the anchor

Really cool climb with a lot of different options at the crux. Was our last climb of the trip, and felt 2 grades harder due to the crazy humidity. I almost gave up on it. But managed to send on the hail mary go after Gabby started the send train (with mild food poisoning no less)

Very cool route, probably my favourite at secret garden so far

Very different from the other tufa climbs here

Awesome route, like a really long boulder

What an awesome route! Really endurance-y, should have done some beta runs instead of just throwing myself at it. But by the 3rd go I managed to somehow hold on till the anchors, almost puking in the process.

Gabby's following send was much smoother in comparison

First old dog slayed, can't remember much of my top rope go 4 years ago but I do know it wasn't pretty

Low crux felt quite hard for Kalymnos standards, rest of the climb felt very chill and sharp holds were all avoidable with some clever footwork

Couldnt even do the start 4 years ago 😬

Bit polished & slippery but still very fun

Last last last climb of the trip, sweaty and tired struggled my way up this but managed to hold on

Bit average compared to the rest of this crag and quite polished

Warmup

Was pretty pooped by the 2 7a's so this took a couple of goes. The part just before the sitdown tufa felt a lot more polished than 4 years ago.

Another very old dog cleaned up, probably a poor choice after a big day of rain felt quite damp and slippery between the big tufa's

Surprisingly fun movement! Used some big move beta at times because my toes hurt 😂

Gabbys 2nd 24. I couldn't do the crux in the sun

Hard crux with a sharpish hidden hold, the rest is quite chill. Don't go too far into the cave as its very loose and dirty in there, also some of the rock felt salty/spoogey from ocean spray in June.

Could have been a super fun jughaul 7a, was it not for the last meter to the anchor being heinously thuggy, crimpy & out of character with the rest.

Wish I hadn't tried this in the full sun, way too hot! Really cool route that rewards those induced in the dark arts of crack

Put my draws up while we waited for the top rope party to finished on the 6c next to it. Cool route would definitely be back to try again

powerful moves on nice jugs some a bit slippery. Anchor is really hard to reach unless you are tall

committing crux lots of fun

Took the 7am boat, topped out 1145. Climbing wise not the best kalymnos has to offer. The starting traverse of the crux pitch was fun but most of the time is spent crimping on very sharp limestone. The rock on the 4th pitch is also a bit loose which I found out the hard way by taking a whip when a foothold broke loose.

The views and exposure are mind blowing though, definitely making up for the less than amazing climbing.

Great climb bit slimy but that only adds to the fun

Vertical start with nice pockets moves into sharp slab with prickly crimps

Dry fired off down low getting a pretty bad cut in my pinky, routes sharp the whole way up, especially the finish, ended up clip sticking myself to the anchor

My first venture on limestone love at first sight

Climbed to the third bolt, then the 7a freed up, so decided to back clean this. Its a bit of a maze of randomly chalked up blobs and hard to read where to go

Exciting slab

Sustained at the grade, the runout makes it exciting

Deserves more than 1 star, the start is a bit boring but the vertical section is fun; razorblade crimps or 2 finger pockets

Bit too sharp for my liking

Very delicate, took 3 sits to figure out where my feet should go. Might come back for the redpoint as it feels within reach

Maybe 6b+ if the draws are on the anchor, pretty gnarly move to get rhem on there tho

Fun tufa climbing, looks a bit sketch to lead though lots of ankle breaking potential

Crimpy comitting first half moves into a pocket-y second half. My ascent will not win a beauty price - too tired from all the climbing but at least I made it to the top and got the draws off

Gave it a 2nd burn in the full sun made it all the way to the last bolt only to fall off in the last crux due to being pumped. Will be back

Took a couple of emotional rests. Nice tufa climbing with a very powerful campus-y finish for me to the anchor. Might come back for the redpoint

Fun overhanging tufa climbing, cool crux sequence but fumbled it on all my burns. Lots of good rests in the 2nd half

Nice vertical climbing with good pockets and jugs. Lots of traps to climb into and I climbed into all of them. Had to down climb 4 times, took 1 sit and 1 fall

Made it to the third draw, thought it was a 6c

Liked the powerful start but the rest is quite chossy and meh. Took a rest just before the anchor because of the pendulum potential. mpossible to clean after leading

The slab part is a bit boring but once you get to the tufa the fun starts. Nice committing moves slightly overhanging, clipping the anchor at the top is hard though

Not gonna get style points for this one but made it. Fun climb though