Begehungen in Singapur

Took a bit of a crank - I was absolutely exhausted by the time I gae it an honest go at the redpoint

danger danger!!! libing is quarries is bad for your health!!! I hae no finger skin left!!! ak!

With Al himself! nice climb.

With Al Silva

2nd pitch has some pretty interesting spots - always funky climbing on loose blocks!

Attempted on lead. Trying to avoid the bees nest which is now on route.

Successful TR ascent. Great route!

Watch out for the bees nest!

2nd pitch is classic trad, but has a few loose blocks.

Mixed ascent (bolts / natural pro)

Night climbing!

Done in the dark - means the bees are asleep! Much safer.

I led the 1st pitch taking the original route by traversing left at the top of the flake, then up the vertical crack, mixed route trad gear and bolts. Khalil led pitch 2, all trad gear to the fixed anchors.

After completing pitch 2 of First Blood, and lowering back to the P1 anchors, its very simple to link to Alarette. As this route starts from the stance at the left and goes up and to the left.

First Kahlil retreated due to loose rock. On my attempt the same loose rock caused me to take a whipper on a nut placed by Kahlil. Retreated shortly afterwards. could not remove the nut.

Starts from the top of First Blood. During this ascent stayed left following the good rock (avoiding the loose rock).

Scary second pitch

Rope solo, sooo close to the onsight but one fall on the crack that closes off the first pitch. Did the whole route trad, but the movement from the top of the flake across to the left to the crack feels exposed without using the bolts. Fun route - nearly fell off the end of the second pitch was done in.

Faff to setup a ground anchor, ended up using a hex, two nuts and a cam, cause I just don't trust that those big chunks of rock will not shift around.

first multi-pitch trad (1st pitch real chossy)

[linked from P1 first blood] We did a headtorch dance, swapping them over as I set off, (worried that mine was going to die) but in the end it was probably unnecessary! Causing Al to belay me in the pitch dark. I had a bit of fun with the gear. first getting a BD microcam stuck then freed, and then I managed to get a Totem cam well and truly stuck, but not carrying a nut tool, it needed a rescue 🙈😅 (standard).

For P1 we Climbed the flake, Stayed right and gained the slab from Nose Ramp. Interesting route variation to make it a tad easier than climbing the crack. Perhaps this is supposed to be 'First Blood original route' ???

Eoin seconded P2 in the dark , and then we rapped off.

Went up the slab rather than the crack, as was not feeling super confident today, the slab makes for a less bold feeling ascent. Then up the cracks to the second anchor- rested on a bit of gear at one point after getting a bit nervy about the previous placement- the upper part of the second pitch feels good for placements, the lower part has some sections where I was less confident. All in all the usual DF trad experience - mildly terrifying. But a really fun route, next time there want to try directuss and the other second pitch, but will wait for a belayer as even this more simple variation of First Blood still felt a bit sketchy, need to build up some more confidence after not doing much LRS since lockdown

Enjoyed it. Chossy start, bouldery traverse section before the crack. Good fun.

Super awesome! Cool moves through crack before the beautiful arete. Felt it was more straight forward than First Blood.

Climbed clean, but used the first blood slab variation for the lower pitch.

Very cool crux, but punted off after. Got it second go. Footwork is like shit after too much steep bouldering!!!