Begehungen von Dreadnought

An adventurous day out. Went off route in a few bits but made it to the top in one piece. Ended up doing part of variant finish in a massive 60+ meter pitch.

With NZ Mike. After dreaming about doing this for the last 4 years, I finally got my teeth into it, although it's not a climb I'd be in a hurry to repeat. Not a lot of gear needed - I took all my hexes with me & didn't use 1! Just cams (up to #4) & Aliens/Zeros and some nuts. Got to use my new #3 Zero for the first time and then lost my brandnew Reverso when it got away from me at a ledge. Took a small fall on P10, fortunately I was in a chimney & ended up sideways level with my gear. We only got off route twice on 12 pitches!

Took 7 hours to do the first 3 pitches, so we bailed! Very runout on crappy rock.

Simulclimbed with Cam Fairbairn

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