Ascents by Dave Scarlett having Distinct route

Straightforward​ with lots of rest up until about 3/4 height, then ramping up in difficulty. Final traverse was on mediocre hands but reasonable feet.

Excellent! Awesome hauling and heel hooking through the overhanging corner. Not all the holds are great, but enough of them are.

Super reachy crux getting past the overhang, then a pumpy finish.

Thin, delicate, and bouldery, on small crimps and a super-sharp finger pocket. Clipping the second bolt is difficult and has definite groundfall potential. Recommend climbing on double ropes (or folding a single in half) to avoid that.

Difficult moves approaching (reachy) and after (crimpy) the big horizontal break.

Very nice. Bouldery start then thin moves on the face. Unfortunately the final bolt isn't in a great position, as the crux is below it, and is quite run out from the previous bolt. By the time you reach the final bolt, the difficult climbing is all over, and there's trad placements available anyway if you want protection for the easy finish. If that bolt were a metre lower, then it could protect the crux.

Just spectacular. Continuously difficult the whole way, but with plenty of rest stances, and an increbile variety of climbing. Pumpy, overhanging crux start (figure out where you want to go before leaving the ground!), then delicate, balancy slabbing, then a final, committing bouldery move getting around the bulge past the final bolt.

Definitely take a BD C4 #1 size cam, as it is quite runout from the final bolt to the anchors. (The placement, about 3m above the final bolt, tapers down perfectly, so a large nut would also work.) Micro nuts are also very useful for a thin crack after bolt 7, which will take a large RP or small aluminium nut.

Finally ticked it. A long quickdraw for the 3rd bolt definitely made that clip a lot more comfortable.

Finally got it clean. An extra-long quickdraw on bolt 2 (to minimise how much rope had to pulled up during that tenuous clip) and a micro cam in the mini roof above the triangular hole between bolts 2 and 3 helped a lot.

Tried this a year ago and fell on the top bolt. Felt easier this time. Tricky at the start and the finish.

Got it first attempt after bolting. Very tough and sequency start!

Fell on the first attempt, above the last bolt, just before the finish. There were good holds there, but I managed to get stuck on two desperate ones. In fact, good holds the entire climb, it's just that sometimes you need to search for them.

Beautiful, sustained climbing up long, weird tufas. Crux at half height, coming out of small concave section around two bulbous tufas.

Easy slab start, becoming much harder when crossing and continuing past the ridgeline. Good hand jam or undercling rest immediately after the awkward corner crux, then only just slightly easier climbing above, before easing at the finish.

Seriously sustained up to the ledge, and then a tough finish getting around the arete on the headwall while fighting rope drag. Probably not recommended to attempt this as your first 21!

No way this is only 21. 22 more like it. Gets incredibly blank around the last bolt(s)* and I had to pull on a draw to get past there.

Steep, crimpy and pumpy start leads to juggy horizontal crack, then crux above getting past last bolt, and finally a moderate slab above with a big flake available on the arête.

Gear: Cams around BD#0.4 size for the first crack, possible #1 in crack above that, and finally a finger-size cam or small-medium nuts for the flake on the slab.

* The bolting is very confusing. The final bolts are a fixed hanger near the arête, and a ringbolt level with it 1m to the right. The left bolt feels much easier to get to, unless you're doing 'Sluts Alliance'. There's also a hanger way out left and below the first ringbolt, which could be for a left variant start, or for 'Biker Mice From Mars'. Stick clipping the first ring and climbing from below it offers a nice start.

Crux getting past the 2nd bolt, on poor hands, trying to reach up to the first pocket after the mini roof. Gets much easier after that.

A super-reachy crux in the steepest section of the wall.

Awkward start with poor hands leads up to rest ledge before overhanging finish on small holds. Fell from the overhang.

A brutally difficult sandbag. Listed as 6b+ in the Climb China guide, but felt more like 6c+. Upside down holds which offer only useless slopers, some reasonable underclings, and the occasional pinch. Rested every bolt.