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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
The Pharos Death Row Pinnacle
21 Cloud Piercer

Start 2m R of 'Sky Scraper' , just R of native pine. Groove, step L, straight over bulge.

FA: Lindorff & Carrigan, 1979

Trad 16m
The Pharos Uncle Charlie
21 Coming on Chris Direct Finish

Straight up past a bolt instead of traversing L.

Mixed trad 20m, 1
The Pharos Front Wall and West Face
21 Rainbow Warrior

Start as for Transatlantic Crossing, 8 metres left of Oceanoid.

  1. 25m (21) Up corner-line as for Transatlantic Crossing to bulge. Continue straight through bulge (pro is difficult), then up groove to belay.

  2. 15m (20) The overhanging rib just right of the right-hand crack (Transatlantic Crossing).

FA: Chris Baxter & Charlie Creese (alt), 1985

Trad 40m, 2
21 Halfway Handsome

Great route. The original write-up has caused some confusion and given rise to the Halfway Damned variant. Start at the slabby corner 3 metres left of Oceanoid.

FA: Keith Egerton, Jane Wilkinson & Peter Woodfield, 1983

Trad 45m
21 Raise the Titanic

Best done as a single mega-pitch although a semi-hanging belay can be had in Oceanoid. Start 1 metre left of Oceanoid.

FA: Eric Jones & Chris Baxter (alt), 1986

Trad 52m
21 Trinity Wall

Outrageous traverse. Take lots of slings, double ropes if you have them and a solid second. Start as for second pitch of Oceanoid. Once traversing right, keep going directly right, towards white hanging corner. There is a line of chalked holds higher up leading you to try and reverse the crux of Atlantis. Resist the temptation to go there.

FA: Chris Shepherd & Jim Thomas, 1982

Trad 30m
21 Cream Between

The wall between Ra and Horus. Led onsight before the bolt was added to the start of Ra. Nice moves and good protection. Worth doing if you are in the neighborhood.

FA: Duncan McGregor & Glenn Tempest, 15 Aug 2017

Mixed trad 15m, 1
The Pharos Back Wall
21 Braindrops

Excellent steep jamming.

New anchor installed towards the end of pitch 1 (off left of Lamplighter belay ledge, tries but fails to be out of sight of Lamplighter, and may need a leaver 'biner), 24m to ground.

Start from ledge 12m up "Lamplighter", below steep flake on left wall. If you belay the crux from the ground, rope stretch brings a ledgefall more into play, which is manageable if you plug more gear.

  1. 23m (21) Up the steep left-leading flake-crack, take right line below the bush and up to the rap anchor. If continuing up pitch 2, continue 5m past the rap anchor via the corner on the R or the blunt arête on the L, to the next bigger ledge.

  2. 40m (20) Good wall climbing, up seams in gently overhanging wall. Then easily to top.

FA: Glenn Tempest, Jeremy Boreham & Rod Young., 1977

FA: Final pitch : Paul Deacon & Clive Curson, 2000

Trad 2
21 sanitize review

Start: Start at a flake 19 metres right of 'Lamplighter'.

  1. 20m (18) Fat, steep flake with hard steep crack immediately left of it. step left to join crack at niche then up into 'Lamplighter' below bulge. Over bulge and belay.

  2. 15m (22) Follow thin corner-flake above, just left of the start of 'Judgement Day', (this is the left side of the sort of pillar and up into white corner) to belay in 'Lamplighter' level with 'Parallels'.

  3. 25m (14) Walk off left is not possible! Continue up Lamplighter or downlead to anchors on Braindrops

FA: Glenn Tempest & Seamus Brennan, 1981

Trad 60m, 3
The Pharos The French Crack Area
21 Cold Storage

The wall 2 metres left of 'French Crack' is very poorly protected.

FA: Mark Moorhead & Chris Shepherd, 1980

Trad 11m
21 Sostratus Cnidius

Wall between 'Rommel' and 'Trespassers Prosecuted'.

FA: Paul Deacon & Clive Curson, 1990

Mixed trad 12m, 2
Pharos Gully Vanoise Area
21 Goodbye Cool World

Start up Greenwich Reach for 3-4m until it is possible to diagonal across right to break in the roof. Through roof, up to next and through it then diagonal left up to anchor on Greenwich Reach. Gear at 2nd roof a little iffy.

FA: Louise Sheperd, Ying Ying He & Wendy Eden, 26 Nov 2016

Trad 32m
21 The British Beat

Lovely, technical thin face. Be careful not to fall off clipping the second bolt.

Start: 4 metres left of the 'Vanoise' corner. Smooth orange wall to rap chain. (Worthless variant start goes up lichenous streak on right to join route below 2nd bolt Jamie Holding, Rosemary Weaver 16-05-1990)

FA: Glenn Tempest & Paul Hoskins, 1981

Mixed trad 15m, 2
21 Scathed

The "protection" style might appeal to the budding aid climber.

Start 2 metres right of 'Beat More Meat' at very thin, almost closed groove. Up groove with micro-wires and Crack'n'Ups (or hand-placed peckers maybe) for token protection. Finish up wall above.

FA: Mike Law, Steve Howden & Eddy Ozols, 1982

Trad 30m
Pharos Gully Heckle and Jeckle Area
21 R Bed Lag

Starts up 'Wogs at the Piles', but instead of breaking right continues straight up the face. At times the gear is small and spaced.

FA: Charlie Creese & Robin Miller, 1985

Trad 14m
21 R Wogs at the Piles

Previously described as "Good climbing but has some runout moves above not brilliant protection". Circa 2017 two retrobolt were added: one at the start (shared by Bedlag), and another bolt halfway (this has since been removed).

Start at the arete of 'Bed Lag' and do a rising traverse through bulge across flakes to right arête. Up and finish slightly left.

FA: Charlie Creese, Chris Baxter & Dave Gairns, 1985

Trad 15m
Pharos Gully Huey and Satellites
21 Genitals of Speech

Diagonal crack 10 metres left of Huey with hard start.

FA: John Lattanzio & Greg Pritchard, 1984

Trad 15m
21 New routing and other afflictions

Just behind Huey wall and a bit to the left is a small orange wall with and undercut start. This line take the twin seams with the small triangle roof at the start, beware of the loose looking blocks on the ledge. from the ledge head right through the steepness to the top

Trad 10m
Pharos Gully Ethereal Buttress
21 Running on Empty

Stem scoop, move R to join L trending line.

Start: Start under the steep scoop.

FA: Kevin Lindorff & Eddy Ozols, 1978

Trad 20m
21 Ethereal

Gets rave reviews.

Start 2m R of RoE.

Rooflet into seam, L at ledge then back R to arete.

FA: Kevin Lindorff, Tony Marian & Andrew Martin, 1979

Trad 20m
21 Cyclops

Committing hand-traverse.

Start in gully around right of 'Pibroch'.

Hand-traverse left around an arete to bottomless crack and climb this.

FA: Rod Young & Phillip McMillan, 1979

Trad 20m
Yesterday Gully Lower Gully
21 Tease and Flirt

Follow Green Shirt to just after the ledge but then break left following diagonal line past bolt. Finish right of the end of Turquoise.

FA: Gareth Llewellin & Rob Saunders, 18 Mar 2015

Mixed trad 25m, 1
21 R More of the Same

Doesn't have to be a solo like the first ascent but not a lace-up. Include a big cam and RPs. Start just right of Turquoise and follow the rounded black arete.

FA: Jon Muir (solo), 1983

Trad 25m
21 Nexus

Start on the right wall of the side gully. Clip bolt runner then climb up and right, a bit boldly, to arete.

FA: Lincoln Shepherd & Phil Bigg, 1981

Mixed trad 15m, 1
21 Pixie's Delight

Could be a poxy delight if you break a hold and crater. Contender for worst route that made it into the Mentz/Tempest guidebook. Wall 3 metres right of More Moves, just below the boulder-choke. The crux starts when you're standing on the ground, trying to work out where the route starts. One option is via the pockets (no gear); another is via the vertical seam a couple of metres up the hill (miniscule grips). The best option is probably to find a better route (which isn't hard in this gully!).

FA: Ant Prehn & Jeff Lamb, 1980

Trad 10m
Yesterday Gully Upper Gully
21 R Flash Gordon

Scary start.

Approach via gully and chimney right of Fever Pitch. The arete right of Not Just A Pretty face from top of approach chimney.

FA: Glenn Tempest & Eddy Ozols, 1980

Trad 15m
21 Yesterday's Rooster

Up and left to top of corner from which BH escapes. Up and right past BR to thin line right of arete, almost back into BH below final triangular roof. Step left and up past BR to double ring bolt belay and rap.

Start: Start: As for 'Blue Hawaii'.

Bring two bolt-plates.

FA: Wade Stevens & Tim Day, 1999

Mixed trad 22m, 2
Yesterday Gully Upper Gully Parsley Area
21 Parsley

Crack on left arete, step left around small roof and up.

FA: Kim carrigan & Louise Shepherd, 1984

Trad 12m
21 Sage

Seam just right of Parsley. Start at Rosemary then tend left.

FA: Kim Carrigan & Louise Shepherd, 1984

Trad 12m
Pharos Boulders Superman Boulder Road Face
V2 Superman 2
Boulder
Pharos Boulders Uphill from Finalgon
V2 Megalodon

Takes the overhanging sharks tooth arête on the N edge of the large slab/boulder underneath Dazed and Confused (20) on the Pharos.

FA: Mark Wood, 1 Jan 2017

Boulder 5m

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