Ascents in Africa as various tick types by Thomas Gissing

Thought this was the 19 - a very stiff warm up. Just squeaked it.

22/23AU

All pretty similar on the RH side. Pleasant, well protected climbing.

Fantastic. Some very nice movement, good length, follows a natural feature.

Sweet. Funky crack moves and a mantle. Really fun and interesting climbing.

Fully protectable on gear - but I'm not complaining.

Cool down mileage at the end of a long day.

Decent easy route, but has one very cruxy, traverse move which is tricky for shorties.

Would be a classic 13 corner at Frog. Wierd climbing a route like this with bolts.

First proper day out for more than a month. Humbling to come back feeling so unfit.

Chossy and quite forgettable.

Forgettable. Steep bulge where you crank on a death block straight in front of your face.

Absolutely buggered when I tried this. So much fun though!

On the way out of town, first thing in the morning with star jumps to warm up in 6 degree weather. Run it out clipping beta worked.

Still struggling to come to grips with SA grading. This felt bouldery 23AU at least to me. Maybe I'm just weak.

Warm up send. Still pumpy though! Doing laps on this would be fantastic training.

So good. Beautiful side pull sequence and a pumpy final clip. One of the best at this grade that I've climbed.

Top rope from Fat Annie for Lu, then ran up it for mileage. Wrecked! Pumpy lie backing.