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Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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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 | 16m | |||
The Pharos Uncle Charlie | |||||
21 | Coming on Chris Direct Finish
Straight up past a bolt instead of traversing L. | 20m, 1 | |||
The Pharos Front Wall and West Face | |||||
21 | Rainbow Warrior
Start as for Transatlantic Crossing, 8 metres left of Oceanoid.
FA: Chris Baxter & Charlie Creese (alt), 1985 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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.
FA: Glenn Tempest, Jeremy Boreham & Rod Young., 1977 FA: Final pitch : Paul Deacon & Clive Curson, 2000 | 2 | |||
21 | ★ sanitize review
Start: Start at a flake 19 metres right of 'Lamplighter'.
FA: Glenn Tempest & Seamus Brennan, 1981 | 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 | 11m | |||
21 | Sostratus Cnidius
Wall between 'Rommel' and 'Trespassers Prosecuted'. FA: Paul Deacon & Clive Curson, 1990 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 FFA: adam demmert & Wendy Eden | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 12m | |||
21 | ★ Sage
Seam just right of Parsley. Start at Rosemary then tend left. FA: Kim Carrigan & Louise Shepherd, 1984 | 12m | |||
Pharos Boulders Superman Boulder Road Face | |||||
V2 | ★ Superman 2
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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 | 5m |
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