Routes in The Embankment

Right-hand side of wall. Up, with a terrible undercling and a small mono to start.

Start in middle of face with low edges, moving up and left to a tough finish. Face was uncovered after a large fire destroyed a tree in front of the face.

That is how much it cost Dan Radford to do the second ascent. Up from edges to slopes and mantle.

Sit-start to screamer. Classic and sustained up a steep arete. The convenient block/flake is not in as a starting hold for the right foot.

Note: The starting left side flake broke April 2024. The climb has since been repeated and remains at the same grade.

Face and arete with a long floaty dynamic crux. The small block directly below the arete is in for feet at the start.

Note: the right-hand start hold broke mid-2022. The problem still goes at around V10.

Same sit-start as “Squatting Bear”, only move right into 'Trixter', moving right along crimps to the slab and up this. Technical and good.

Essentially “Mr Angry Head” without the swing start; In other words establish yourself on the rock and then dyno for the top. Technical and fun.

Variant of “Snorkel”. Low start eliminating starting edge of original problem.

The face and arête just left of tree. Start standing on the flake embedded in the ground, with slopey sidepull for left-hand and incut tooth for right-hand. Reachy and hard move up and right to the sidepull and up. Reach dependant start.

Sit-start at the left-hand end of the overhang and traverse right along the slopey lip, finishing as far right as possible on the massive right foothold. Great low fun.

Same as “The Good Shorts” but traverse all the way to almost the end of the boulder.

Start low, matched off the diagonal edge. See also “Weighting Gains”.

Steep face from a standing start. Sit-start will be hard!

Short sit-start. Broken hold has made it harder.

The blank face with the good starting hold at about half height. This and a pathetic slope are it though. Harvey's Marbles first V5 problem.

The blocky arête between 'Live's Pockets' and 'Soft Pockets'. Up via a very cool right-hand pinch at the crux.

Just right of “Soft Pockets”’ on the blank looking wall. Hard move to pop to a multitude of mono's (swing start ok) and then to up via a slightly better micro-pocket!

Contrived. Same start as “Out of Reach” only keeping left of small block, except for starting right-hand hold. Straight up through some desperately sloping holds.

The obvious overhung arete with a standing start.

Note: The starting left side flake broke April 2024. The climb has since been repeated and remains at the same grade.

Start as for Pikers Variant but after getting the halfway jug, head up and right to finish above the little gully.

Super classic sit-start to “Bear Huggies” and very pleasant for the grade. A Harvey's Marbles must do!

Slightly contrived problem tackling the face between “Left Cocky” and “Vertical Therapy”. Doesn't use either arete and finishes via the great jug at the top. Slopey holds to the top.

Sit-start as per “Snorkel”, then traverse right, using the slopes along the obvious lip, finishing on the right-hand arete in front of the small tree. See also, “Breathless Variant Finish”.

Variant to “More Value For Your Crag”. Start sitting on the block in the middle and mantle straight up via some slopers.

Do the sit-start for “Smokey the Supercat” then traverse left to top out “Winter Woolies”

The face and arête with an undercut start to a balancy finish. Excellent.

Starts just to the right of “Strictly Ballroom” above the big diagonal foothold. Up on multiple mono pockets. Balancy and tough.

Same as “Poached” but using big flake for feet.

Starts standing with 2 sloping underclings, (big one for left-hand and small one on arete for right-hand). Brutal move to stand up and then slap up right arete. A little easier if you start off the block.

“Any Which Way” but without using the arête.

As for Breathless but continue around the arête and finish up as for ‘Nibbles”.

Sit-start with both hands on obvious edge and up via slopes and crimps to a good finishing jug. Watch the spikey block underneath!

Variant of “Snorkel”. Pull left onto face.

Sit-start just left of the tree. Move right traversing the lip and passing around the tree. Continue and mantle about 1m right of the tree. Easy for the grade.

Fantastic wall. Very high with a cruxy finish.

Face 1.5 metres left of the arete. Now with a missing hold which has increased the grade. Up via some tricky moves, moving onto the arete for the top half. (Grade has been raised from V2 -V3 to reflect difficulty increase.)

Middle of the face going straight up through some thin moves.

The direct start to “Strictly Ballroom”.

Starts in center left of slab, moving up and out left to a small foothold and then up.

The tricky right-hand end/arete of the big slab, covered in lichen. Starts above the big foothold. Really interesting and climbs better than it looks.

From small crimps move up to good edge and then chunky flake.

Hard slab with some very technical footwork. Start from lowest level.

Obvious bear hug arête, like holding refrigerator block.

Face and vague arete, with improving Left-hand sidepulls, finishing via the great jug.

Technical face and arete, staying right of the arete. Better than it looks.

Same as “The Good Shorts” but alternatively go straight up and left from the sit-start.

Start in middle of face with your right hand on the rising lip, and your left hand on diagonal edge. Move up and mantle. See also “Weighting Gains Variant”.

Up from slopey holds at lip of roof. Sit start under the roof with crimps. See also “Poached Variant”.

Up to layback. Finish direct. Scary.

Standing start, move up through the dihedral using thin crimps and sidepulls. A high jug gives a small reprieve before topping out on slopers.

Up steep wall on downhill side to jugs and then traverse left along the crack to finish. The scary direct mantle is still to go.

Start off the pair of edges on the right-hand arête of “Bear Huggies”. Across to and up the face just right to finish.

Small 1m boulder. Sit-start with feet on small edge, hands matched on obvious lower rail. Mantle up and top out on boulder

Start on arête. Follow crack right to finish.

Up arête and crack to higher arête on left.

Balancy slab starting in the narrow gap between the two boulders, starting from lowest level.

Sit start the left-hand most slab, just right of the arete, moving onto the arete to finish.

Start just left on the bigger footholds, just right of the crack, moving right to finish as for “Banded Burritos”.

Swing start dyno (start with one foot on the wall and jump) using right-hand on arete, to jug.

Tackles the concave face, not using the left-hand arete and finishing via the jug at the top.

Arete from the right side, moving right to the same finishing jug as “Vertical Therapy”.

Starts straight on at the base of “Any Which Way” arete and then moves left onto face.

High ball. Up the obvious flaky face, staying left of the arete for nicest moves.

One of the few cracks at Harvey's.

Up face and thin crack.

Loads of fun for everyone. Various problems up the friction slab.

The arete starting from lowest level and slightly left. Great beginner problem.

Obvious layback.

Traverse along the front slabby face of the boulder, with a crux top out. Start as far left as possible.

The small corner on the downhill face starting from the left. The hard sit start is the obvious line and is yet to go.

Slab starting from ground level left of small block, then moving out right.

A nice beginner problem that can be started from numerous holds and heights, but it's best started low off on opposing sidepulls.

A short cruisy face and arête with some nice scoops.

Rising traverse, topping out at the right-hand arete. Super classic and a fantastic warm up.

Face, starting from lowest level, 1m left of “Keith's arete of Destruction”.

Same arete as “Sunset Delights”’ only from the left side, with some nice layback moves.