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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
Top End DARWIN Closed Private Indoor Climbing Wall Middle Wall
19 Middle Wall Rope 5 Green

Sustained lower section that moves into delicate no holds 1st crux to the right of the tear drop. Move up and left to roof ladder panel for the 2nd crux to reach and pull over to finish last two panels.

Top rope 12m
19 Middle Wall Rope 6 Purple

Good sustained crimpy climbing. Crux is the set up and reach between the third last and second last panel.

Top rope 12m
Top End DARWIN Closed Private Indoor Climbing Wall Right Wall
19 Right Wall Rope 9 Blue

Juggy Holds, overhung route. Tough section off the ground, then sustained jugs to the top.

Top rope 10m, 8
Top End DARWIN Dripstone Cliffs
V1 halfway neck scratch

Stand Start, getting high feet on the left side and side pull on medium crimp before a high step up right, step up and upward. walk off top-out

FA: Luke Arnold, 26 Jun 2022

Boulder 3m
Top End Cherabin Rock The Carapace
19 Carpus Crackling

Superb face climbing in the shade. Straight up the middle of the face then following the major line in the middle of the crackling on the upper face.

FFA: Chris Jokinen & Adam Bucca, 22 Dec 2018

Trad 17m
Top End Robin Falls Main area
19 Gold Hangers

The lowest climb close to the water on RH side of creek. Takes the right hand slabby face with a thin seam up it's centre. Chain lower off.

Sport 8m, 3
Top End Robin Falls Project Crag - Robin Falls Access
V1 Project

Probably will fall over if climbed but to cool not to put on the crag

Boulder 6m
Top End The Apostles South Apostles FREEBIRD PINNACLE
18 - 22 Freebird

Old top rope problem. Kelly Hansen holds the honor of having first top rope ascent of this little beastie.Up crack to lip then crimp hard onto very thin face. Tenuous and balancy moves under right leaning Flake to thank f*#K jug. 2BR, 3BB.

FFA: Stuart Anderson & Colin Reece, 2003

Sport 11m, 2
Top End The Apostles South Apostles HARD ROCK PINNACLE
19 Gunk

Just right of HRF around the corner is a very sunny little wall. This somewhat testy little number follows the flake on the right side of the wall up to a prominent horizontal. Delicate bulgy moves to BR.

FFA: Geoff McQueen & Colin Reece, 2003

Mixed trad 8m, 2
Top End The Apostles South Apostles FAT PIZZA WALL
19 Sleek the Elite

Short Sharp and really pumpy. Tough start of the deck, traverse left across face to difficult second clip. Finishes on easier ground up groove and small headwall. 3BR, 2BB

FFA: Geoff McQueen & Colin Reece, 2003

Sport 7m, 3
Top End The Apostles South Apostles
19 Notethical
Unknown 12m
Top End The Apostles North Apostles Camp
19 Unnamed Route 1

Right of Guten Tag 2 bolts exist on near side of arete. Steep slightly overhanging fingery challenge starting from Camp Rock and finishing on carrot bolts, walk off back.

Set: Steve Beyer, 2021

SportProject 7m, 2
Top End The Apostles North Apostles
19 Jerusalem

Stick clip, very high first bolt

FA: Colin Reece

Unknown 10m
19 No News

Stick clip high bolt, Short and sharp.

FA: Colin Reece & Stuart Anderson, 2007

Unknown 9m
Top End Hayes Creek Trad Gully The Sanctuary
19 Where Dick Goes Down

First line on the LHS of the Sanctuary, named for Richard’s impressive first descent, and remains today as somewhat of a testpeice. Overhanging start with open corner above. If you want to cheat, stick clip the fixed hanger, then grunt, groan and hernia your way to a rest at 5m. Beware of patch of manky water affected choss at mid height. Easily up corner. 1BR

FA: Richard Lawrence, john Fattore & Co

Mixed trad 10m, 1
19 Gobby Jug

Thin and balancy face with three bolts to crack with natural pro finish

Smooth red face just right of Pot Belly. Delicate and fingery moves straight up the face past 3 FH’s . Easier through bulge to top (SLCD’s). 3BR, 1 fixed SLCD.

FA: John Fattore, dave Witter & David Shepherd

Sport 20m
Top End Hayes Creek Trad Gully High Ground
19 Princess Chelsea

Start on the right of Whipping Boyís deep Chimney. Follow small crack system up to roof. Strenuous moves on small holds around roof. Finish on same ledge as AA.

FA: Neale ëíKiwiî Taylor, Chris Hart & Justin Trevorrow

Trad 12m
19 Chris's Arete

Sharp overhanging arête on left hand margin of GAG wall

FA: Chris Hart

Trad 13m
19 Kiwi's Overhang

Looking just to left of GAG you will see a very prominent roof with ripply sandstone underneath. One strong move straight over and that’s it. Nice cams under roof. Short but by all accounts quite stiff for the grade.

FA: Neale “Kiwi” Taylor

Trad 8m
Top End Hayes Creek Trad Gully Left Hand Side
19 Thin Tidings

The delicate face above the tiny roof between two cracks. Climb straight up through the right end of the roof, keeping out of Butt Crack (right). Once through the roof move left onto the face, still keeping away from Butt Crack and the arête to left. 3BR

FA: John Fattore, Julian Fattore & Richard Lawrence

Mixed trad 15m, 3
19 No Man's Land

To many this is the best climb in the valley. Certainly Jules and Jules’s finest moment here. Climbs the distinctive blackened 3rd wall on the RHS of the crag past the Amphitheatre and waterfall. Slightly overhanging face set back into cliff. Start below and left of first BR. Up and right to first BR, up past 2 more BR’s, left and up to finish on ledge. So named after it repelled all male attempts pre Julie’s ascent claiming it as one for the ladies. A slippery proposition on a hot build up day. 4BR, 1BB

FA: Julie Weston, Julian Fattore & Nile, 1995

Mixed trad 12m, 1
Top End Hayes Creek Spider Gully
19 Frangipani

Good slabing with a sting in the tail, 4 carrots and one br.

Sport 12m, 7
19 Palmerstone

Take the ramp and follow the chalk, glory jugging on an overhung wall. Alternate start to ramp, climb bougainvillaes start at the same grade.

Sport 25m, 10
19 Black Betty

Tricky crux through strange ramp, great climb at the grade.

Sport 20m, 9
19 Promite

Follow line of 4 carrots one br, shares anchor with dynamite.

Sport 14m, 7
Top End Butterfly Gorge Token pole
19 Another Free Route

m the platform just at water level clim the from face of this pillar through technical, dicky and barely protected move at 1/3 height. Steadily up to the rooflet and through the left side near small tree. Traverse slightly right and finish up.

FA: David Shepherd 2000ish

Trad 25m
Top End Butterfly Gorge Middle Right
19 Hoya

Look for featured face on the right side of the gorge, to the left of a major gully. Climb the right side of this face following a vague crack line. Rap off fig tree. Gear: Heaps of small wires and cams up to 0.4".

FFA: Jason McCarthy, 31 Oct 2015

Trad 15m
Top End Depot Creek Mother's Day Gorge Rat-Dog Buttress
19 Eskimo Trebuchet

Stick to the thin crack in middle of face. Nice moves through lower section with slight run out to third bolt. Careful of some lose blocks on the left side.

FA: Sean Hobson & Chris Jokinen, 6 May 2019

FFA: Sean Hobson, 7 Jun 2020

Sport 15m
19 The Lizard Wizard

Start at water climbing obvious thin crack straight up the face. Incredible climbing which is sustained from bottom to top.

FFA: Chris Jokinen, 21 Apr 2019

Trad 15m
Top End Depot Creek Mother's Day Gorge Phallic Pillar
19 Hung like a grape

Up the layback flake and pull straight through roof on micro crimps, moving up to anchor

FA: Chris Jokinen, 22 Apr 2019

Mixed trad 15m, 2
19 Phallic Fallacy

Slight right of HLAG there is a slight left diagonal weakness, follow this.

FA: Chris Jokinen, 22 Apr 2019

Top rope 15m
Top End Depot Creek Depot Creek Gorge Depot Creek Original
19 The Carrots of Consternation

Great climb with hard blank face. Start up corner crack, pull through 2 roofs up face and left of fig tree then though large roof. FFA done on 2 dodgy bash in carrots that stuck out 1.5". Carrots have since been replaced by 3 bolts.

FA: Chris Jokinen & Sean Hobson, 5 May 2019

FFA: Chris Jokinen & Sean Hobson, 16 May 2020

Mixed trad 30m, 3
Top End Depot Creek Depot Creek Gorge Nose to the Grindstone
19 Blades of Glory

Start to left of AA, moving through the left side of the face without using the arete. Great moves early on with a very thin crux. Finish up the thin crack on left side of face.

FA: Chris Jokinen & Sean Hobson, 17 May 2020

FFA: Chris Jokinen, 12 Sep 2020

Sport 16m, 5
19 Pathfinder

Start on large shelf, follow small overhung corner then up center blank face. Trust there is micro pro here. Once over the 2 horizontal cracks traverse left to the ledge and fig tree. Go up left of fig and through crack in roof. bring plenty of micro wires.

FFA: Chris Jokinen, Sean Hobson & Phil Clark, 4 May 2019

Trad 30m
Top End Emerald Springs Area Col's Crag
19 Bonnie rumble

Awesome natural line. Climb the crack left of white streak until it runs out. Tricky move to traverse right to gain the flake. climb the double crack and then the left facing corner as it gets steeper and finally onto the face to the anchors.

FFA: Mike De Marco, 2 Sep 2017

Trad 20m
Top End Emerald Springs Area The Tower
19 Zelda and the horseflies

Scramble up to belay on the ledge on the left side of the south face. Up the right facing corner leading to thin cracks. Up the orange face on pockets to a rooflet with a crack. Pull through the rooflet to a belay ledge. Scramble left and descend from gully. Take some micro cams, small wires, standard rack

FFA: Mike De Marco, 1 Sep 2017

Trad 20m
Top End Umbrawarra Gorge
19 Purpledickular

Watch the loose rock top of this climb.

Thin crack right of CC. Start left of crack through small overhang then straight up fine crack. Excellent and balancy climbing spoilt only by the poorly protected and slightly chossy finish.

FA: Dave Shepherd

Trad 12m
19 Little Bitch

Centre of the Enclosure wall. Climb straight up the face just right of the Stay Low crack, not using the crack at all. A popular old top rope project, which has seen many pained ascents before Mr. Hart’s somewhat visionary effort (go son!) Finishes directly through the centre of the roof. Twin Ropes!!!

FA: Chris Hart

Trad 20m
19 M1 Basque Separatist

Final completion of old route Never ending Story (18) by Chris Cannard. Climb up and through some steep terrain past old decayed sling, and aid for 1 move through featureless roof.

FA: Colin Reece & Stuart Anderson, 2005

Aid 20m
19 Basque Bastard

Starts on top of the obvious mantelshelf ledge (Sheeplovers Bane), move right through over some small roofs to striking red vertical face traverse left on pockets and small SLCD placements. Clench your cheeks and do very gymnastic and exposed move left around corner. Up to under large roof crack (beware of loose blocks in the cave). Blast through roof crack to jugs and glory. Has probably been climbed earlier but exact FA details unknown.

FA: Nick Engels & Levi Farrand, 2003

Trad 22m
Top End Nitmiluk Gorge First Gorge
19 Solid Vertical Happiness

Takes the clean streak just left of blackened waterstreak on LHS of the Forth Wall. Nice face climbing, increasing in difficulty towards the top, but nothing very hard. Sketchy traverse in from ledge, or water-start.

FA: Goshen Watts, 14 Jul 2014

Deep water solo 15m
Top End Nitmiluk Gorge 5th Gorge
19 Breakfast in Bed

From a jug on the left, traverse right through slopey pockets. Move off big pockets up 1.5m, then continue right for 5m. Down climb to water in corner or jump off.

FA: Andrew Houghton & Jemma Herbert, 22 Jul 2015

Deep water solo 15m
Top End Nitmiluk Gorge 9th Gorge 9th Gorge Slabs
19 Siroccan Breakfast

Straight up middle line. Over bulge with parallel cracks. Don't use left gully.

FA: Andrew Houghton & Jemma Herbert, 17 Jul 2015

Top rope 20m
Top End Nitmiluk Gorge 9th Gorge
19 Cheese 'n' Crackers

On wall opposite 9th gorge campsite. Starts on huge ledge one third of the way up the cliff.

Can be accessed by a walk with airy traverse from sandy beach on far left, or easy scramble up juggy blunt arete from far right gully.

Onto a ledge at 6m. mantle onto rectangular block. Up obvious left facing corner with crack at top.

Rap of tree 6m left facing cliff to descend.

FA: Andrew Houghton & Jemma Herbert, 16 Jul 2015

Trad 25m
Top End Rocky Ridge (The Caryard)
19 Grand Theft Auto Unknown 8m
Top End Super Critical Boulders Bikers Boulder
V1 Its a Dinner Party

Sit start, left foot and hand matching, high right hand, up through dinner plates on trail side of boulder.

FA: Tom Etheridge, 17 Jun 2023

Boulder 3m
Top End Super Critical Boulders Bolted Boulder
V1 Peduncle

Stem up the chimney to finish with both hands on top of wedged block.

FA: Isaak Bovell, 23 May 2021

Boulder
Top End Bomb Site (Katherine) Shrapnel Boulder
V1 Bat Attack

Start low on the right hand side of the face, traverse left along the two pockets and then straight up and over. Watch the finger slicer.

FA: Isaak, 16 Sep 2019

Boulder
V1 Punch Left

Left of Slopey Grasper - sit start hand on rail and two punchy movies up and left as shown in topo

FA: Tom Etheridge, 18 Jun 2023

Boulder 3m
Top End Bomb Site (Katherine) Arrakis
V1 Finger Fear

Sit start, fingers crunching on anything and everything. Watch for the breakables near the top.

FA: Tom Etheridge, 17 Jun 2023

Boulder 3m
V1 Ye of lots of Fear

Sit start hands on the ledge, awkward feet out left to gain enough height to pull in tight and reach for slope next holds.

FA: Tom Etheridge, 17 Jun 2023

Boulder 3m
Top End Wild Rice Front
V1 Slice Of Franks Pie

Sit start, one hand on corner, Traverse the side, finish with one hand on the corner

FA: Sam Louie, Jun 2019

Boulder
V1 Unnamed

Sit start, Left side of the boulder

Boulder
V1 Czech Dream

Follow the large crack on the left and top out.

FA: Oli, 20 Aug 2019

Boulder
V1 For mother russia

Follow the crack on the right side.

FA: Jarrad Aurisch & Sam Louie, 1 Sep 2019

Boulder
V1 Slip and Slide

Stand Start. Up chimney. Recommend knee pads or long pants

FA: Jarrad Aurisch & Sam Louie, 8 Mar 2020

Boulder
Top End Wild Rice Middle
V1 benchwarmer

Sit on the bench and climb the face.

FA: Sam Louie & Jarrad Aurisch, Jun 2019

Boulder
Top End Wild Rice Back
V1 Rubiks Pals

Start right hand side in crack traverse left than out at vertical crack

FA: Sam Louie

Boulder
V1 Sad and Alone

Sit Start, use cracks

FA: Jarrad Aurisch, 24 May 2020

Boulder
Top End Wild Rice Right side
V1 Unnamed

Stand start up arette

FA: Jarrad Aurisch, 1 Sep 2019

Boulder
Central Australia Alice Springs Charles Creek
19 Tricky Moments

Large scoop 2m R of AC to block, up to high BR, then straight up on delicate crimps (don’t give into temptation and step left into jugs) past another BR to DBB.Now equipped (as of April 2021) with FH 2m off the ground to protect the start

FA: Allison Garrett & Steve Thornton, 1995

Mixed trad 10m, 2
Central Australia Alice Springs Stegar Road Crags Left Wall
19 Shades of Blue

Fun climbing with just enough protection. Start 1m right of guano streak below twin caves at the right end of the cliff. Up committing face (small wires can be found) to ledge and cave. Ignore the ancient carrot and continue up and right, around the arete and up slab, passing another carrot to SBB

Mixed trad 12m, 2
Central Australia Alice Springs Stegar Road Crags The Quarry Wall
19 - 21 Left Foot Screaming

Up the L tending crack R of FT. Up to bolt, then smear like a demon through the crux. Continue up line to DBB.

FA: Damian Auton & Kieran Culhane, 1995

Mixed trad 15m, 3
Central Australia Alice Springs Stegar Road Crags Stegar Road Bouldering
V1 Lippy

Sitting on rock as for Warmup, up left to lip then traverse lip left to fist crack.

Boulder 5m
Central Australia Alice Springs Stegar Road Crags Pyramid Wall
19 Secret Pleasures Trad 12m
Central Australia Alice Springs Stegar Road Crags Sandbag Wall
19 Pure Delight Trad 8m
Central Australia Alice Springs Wallaby Crag
19 Deception Trad 10m
19 Elephants Arse Trad 17m
Central Australia Alice Springs Honeymoon Gap
19 Fandanglement

Unnamed - the left most line of bolts. Steep bulging technical face.

FA: Richard Johnson & Paul Deacon, 2012

Sport 18m, 4
Central Australia Alice Springs Simpsons Gap Window Wall
19 Batten Down the Hatches

Up the left trending crack near the centre of Window Wall and closest to the large pine tree.

Trad 15m
Central Australia Eastern MacDonnells Emily Gap M&M Wall
19 Mee-Gwitch
Trad 50m
19 Gumby Wins the Meat Tray

Excellent and steep, sustained headwall. Starting 5m left of the left hand end of the triangle roof just below a piton at 6m. Up past the piton and trend back right to a block at the overlap. Pass the block on it's left before continuing past a 2nd pin and sustained climbing. Solid grade for 19.

FA: Neil Melan, 1997

Trad 35m
19 Block Head
Trad 25m
Central Australia Eastern MacDonnells Flintstones
19 Fred's Knife

Diagonal line starting from RHS. Tricky move into line, then more easily to join last few moves of MS.

FA: Paul Deacon & Goshen Watts, 2013

Trad 10m
Central Australia Eastern MacDonnells Trephina Gorge East Side
19 Insurgence
Unknown 15m
Central Australia Eastern MacDonnells Ross River Sphinx Rocks
19 Big Yerba Goes Forth

A reasonably obvious crack roughly 4m from the L end of the face

FA: Damian Auton, 1995

Trad 18m
Central Australia Eastern MacDonnells Ross River Eastern Bloc
19 Dabadoo

A quality line with good pro R of MEC. The R facing corner, crack, then up and through bulges to top

FA: Paul Deacon, Kieran Culhane, Annette Boelman & Glenn Tempest, 1996

Trad 18m
19 Child's Play

Another good line. Start 4m R of TDA70s. Follow the crack line (intricate pro) to mantle at ledge. Up, veering R at top

FA: Goshen Watts & Eryne Hali, 1996

Trad 20m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells The Reef West Side Warm Up Boulder
V1 Jumbly

has both a left and right hand start, right being easier. Jugs lead through slightly loose rock to top

FA: 2010

Boulder 4m
V1 Sickle

Popular line on r side of main face. Sit start on edges, up and right through rounded jugs before following sickle line back left

FA: 2010

Boulder 3m
V1 King of the Cling

located on the back side of the boulder, just to the left of the descent. Stand up into undercling, bump feet up into bad smears and reach high for jugs

FA: Ryan Gaskon, 5 Jul 2020

Boulder 3m
V1 Chimney Crickets

Around the corner from the warm up boulder. Fun little off width chimney. Standing start with right hand on diagonal jug deep in chimney and left hand on crimp. Wiggle your way up before exiting on the higher of the 2 slabs and out on jugs

FA: Pierce Brickell, Jul 2023

Boulder 4m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells The Reef The Lagoon The Lagoon
V1 Eel head right

same start as Eel Head left, but this time go straight up, veering R slightly on good but slippery holds. top out

Boulder 2m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells Serpentine Gorge Sadism Buttress
19 Bull in a China Shop
Unknown 100m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells Ormiston Gorge Ormiston Bluff
19 Oedipus Shmoedipus
Unknown 20m
19 Weatherbee
Unknown 20m
19 Short 'N' Sharp
Unknown 8m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells Glen Helen Vic Wall
19 Stitching Time

A great steep and sustained line that meanders up the chocolate mudcake. Start at a small corner 6m right of Scorpion and make a rising traverse to a cavelet at 8m. Travers up and right for3m then follow vertival cracks before trending back left to a second cavelet. Exit right or left taking a rising left line viz cracks to the top.

FA: Krish Seewraj & Dan Ewald, 2002

Trad 22m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells Glen Helen Siege Wall
19 Euro-dice
Trad 40m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells Glen Helen Minge Wall
19 No Whinge About the Minge
Trad 25m
19 Bats Over Botswana
Trad 25m
Central Australia Western MacDonnells Glen Helen Vomit Wall
19 Confident Minty Freshness

Climbs the blank looking face about 6m left of DV that yeilds a fun line on thin holds and gear. Starts directly below huge hanging flake that leans out from the top of the wall. Straight up face on thin positive holds and cracks, trending slightly right on easier ground to finish up the face just R of flake.

FA: Pat Spiers, Krish Seewraj & Jason Geres, 2002

Trad 25m
18 - 20 Downwind of Vomit

A real doozy of a crux highlights this incredible splitter crack up the middle of the wall. Start in large scoop and crank through low crux before the crack relents to easier climbing. Add a grade or three if you don't know how to jam

Trad 30m
Central Australia APY Lands Shop Side Boulder
V1 Terry

Short crimpy slab

FA: Oska Mills, 19 Aug 2021

Boulder 3m
V1 Tjina-mama

Finger Crack 1.5m left of Terry. Using the crack and the right-hand face.

FA: Oska Mills, 16 Aug 2021

Boulder 4m
Central Australia APY Lands Aeroplane Hill Galaxy Crag
19 The Left Hand of Darkness

Start and the jumbled blocks beneath the thin crack in the middle of the main face, about 10m left of The 3 Body Problem. Interesting moves through the crux on the lower section of the route. It gets easier from there on if you're not gassed. Top out around the spear bush.

FA: Oska, 2 Jul 2022

Trad 20m
Central Australia APY Lands Puli Ngintaka
19 Kuniya's Head

Good sustained climb on the eastern side of the rockhole with thrutchy moves at the top. Easier bail out before the finale.

FA: Nathan Stringfellow, 29 Oct 2023

Trad 20m
Central Australia APY Lands Prickle Hill
19 Pete's Ridge

The tallest section of the cliff. Start on the good holds below a slope and weakness. Go straight through the weak area sticking to the orange slab face. Fine crimps and tricky moves up to the horn. Vear slightly left and up once you get to the overhang.

FA: Peter Hamnett, 6 Aug 2023

Unknown 18m
19 Ilinytja No Puns

The main climb is behind the big ili. But a detour start can be added for fun- this is up the steep boulder to the right of the base of the ili. Continue behind the ili from the crack on the back left corner. Move right and up to a ledge below the steep wall crisscrossed with cracks. Climb up and right on good holds to the top.

Unknown 15m

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