Routes as sport in Cambodia

[The following is out of date] Start next to the small wooden house and tree. The crux of this climb is surely the start. Follow the 6 bolts to the anchor.

So called, because this route used to be covered in vines. Follow the line of 5 bolts to the anchor. - Taken from Ben Tipton's "Rock Climbing in Cambodia"

A classic 5.10! The line is pretty self explanatory, follow the 7 bolts to the anchor. You may just want to pull the rope and repeat this route once you did it the first time. - Taken from Ben Tipton's "Rock Climbing in Cambodia"

The name literally means "good day" or "greetings" and named this because this climb is usually one of the first routes climbed when visiting the area for the first time. Climb the slab following the 3 drawn-out bolts to the anchor (23m) gradually traversing right. - Taken from Ben Tipton's "Rock Climbing in Cambodia"

Start on or near the left corner of the slab. Watch out for loose rock on this long slab climb. - Taken from Ben Tipton's "Rock Climbing in Cambodia" [Name means "rice + pork", route name originally spelt "Buy-Siak-J-Rok"] [Update: the route has been bolted, unsure about bolt location or number]

A popular route for beginners and seasoned climbers alike. Climb following the 6 bolts and gradually traversing left. Leave a directional on the 3rd or 4th bolt for safe top-roping. - Taken from Ben Tipton's "Rock Climbing in Cambodia

A tight start between the two rocks. Stick clip the first bolt. Sustained difficulty makes this one a must climb. - Taken from Ben Tipton's "Rock Climbing in Cambodia"

Unknown bolted route up the extremely overhung rock. Not sure if it has ever been ascended.

Inside the cave, closest climb to the wooden stairs. Top anchors can be seen easily from the ground.

Maybe a meter or so to the right of Daelim Dash. April, June, and Victorious all start pretty much in the same spot. Stay on the face to the left of the start. Top anchors clear. Possible off width fun if you stray off to the right into the narrow cave.

Similar start spot to April and Victorious. June is a less clear climb. Maybe it goes inside the narrow off width cave, maybe it doesn't. More beta required. Top anchors also unclear. Please add info if you have it.

Similar start point to April and June, same top anchors as Upgrade. Climb the long spine going straight up to anchors. There is a small perch at the top where you can sit to set acnhors

Where the path in the cave turns left coming from the wooden stairs there is a small tower of rock. Victorius climbs up the left spine of it, Upgrade climbs up the face of it. Dusty slopers abound. Crux between last bolt and top anchors, the face begins to overhung just slightly. (Ground fall potential heading up to second bolt)

Same as Making it Work, but don’t avoid the crux like a sissy.

Belay from the little slab at the base of the cliff, climb is characterized by pockets made from the sandstone layers. At the 4th clip there’s a large cave to the left, avoid it as some of the hermits live in there at times. Slightly run out between clips 3-4 because of the layers. Can cheat the crux by following the crack up to the right and traversing back over along the top to the anchors.

Start with hands on the face, feet under the overhang. Crimp up to the slopey pockets. In the deep pocket be prepared to have 1000 ants on you within seconds, can switch grip in the ant pocket to undercling. Top out on big jug in between the two anchor bolts.

Climb to the southern anchor. Really green and slippery on account of the water trickle here that created a perfect cleft in the top of the rock, the downspout.

On the corner of the rock, furthest to the south.

A nice layback crack almost the length of the route. Hits a teeny tiny roof one meter below the anchors.

Under the big tree there is an obvious yellow crack, there are anchors but tying to the big branch will save your rope a lot of friction. Hand shredding project on explosive sandstone. We’ve blown off more holds than there are on the route. The crux is early, best guess is to reach deep in the yellow coloured crack for a slopey side grip. Recommend listening to tunes by Big Wreck to bring the psyche.

Start in front of the big red barked tree. (For top rope recommend anchoring in the tree, actually, save your rope a lot of trouble). Big pocket on the right gets you of the ground, big pocket above your head gets you to the first bolt. Straight forward slopey stuff from there. Very bouldery route.

Far end of the sector is a project that ideally one would have a few crash pads for. Start with a traverse on the overhung start until your back is almost touching the boulder behind you. A fall early results in a boulder bump, hence why a crashpad is ideal. Transition from pockets to crimps to slopes to achieve the steep slab top. Anchors in the rock BUT a top rope attempt will absolutely shred a rope.

Same top as Kroma Crashpad, start from on top of the boulder to skip all the hard stuff.

Very easy slab route for beginners, starts right behind the I heart KT selfie sign. Start on the little slope of stone directly behind the sign. first clip can be reached from there. Top is pretty unclear.

Mid size crack above the large cave entrance along the side of the road. Start is about chest height, most difficult part of the climb is getting onto it. Very short route.

This one is located somewhere in between tha big cave opening and the obvious off-width/chimney feature to the far right. No other details known.

You'll need to ask the cafe owner to move her tables and chairs if you want to belay this one. Resonable sized offwidth the route tends to the left side of it, mostly on the face. Not many details available. Grade is a total guess.

Start the same as Seam Rorns sport route: in the makeshift cafe with tarp rood. So... can't really climb this one. Follow sharp tufa-esqu limestone edge. Top unknown.

The wide side of the shark fin is a very light slab, nearly vertical. Very esthetically pleasing route, not very hard but a little scary: partly because the gear is very old and looks bad, partly because it's pretty run out. Could be a classic route.

Easy sport route up the front of the fin (thin part). Anchors are quite a bit below the top of the tower.

Start in the crack right in the middle of the front face of the rock. There is a bolted route, but it looks as though it hasn’t been climbed in several years. No beta about the top.

(#1 on the topo) Starting from the launch slab (the only sport climb to start here, though all the belaying is from here) follow the obvious line up to the left-most anchors. The climb is significantly harder if you stay to the right of the anchors, there are alot more features off to the left.

(#2 on topo) 99, The Right Stuff, and Predator all technically start from the treed ledge below, but can be started from the "launch slab". Shares anchor with The Right Stuff

(#3 on topo) 99, The Right Stuff, and Predator all technically start from the treed ledge below, but can be started from the "launch slab". Shares anchor with 99.

(#4 on topo) 99, The Right Stuff, and Predator all technically start from the treed ledge below, but can be started from the "launch slab". While 99 and The Right Stuff run closely paralell and share an anchor, Predator drifts to the right with largely run out bolts, presumably so placed because of the precarious rock. After the last bolt the climb is easy to the anchors at the very top of the tower. [Note: these anchors have not been inspected in nearly a decade, use with caution]

(#15) A huge overhanging offwidth goes from just above the main entrance of the cave, follow it to the anchors in the cave roof. Jump start from a boulder or borrow a friends shoulders. Only two known ascents.

(#16) Starting just to the left of the cleft opening to the outside of the cave (in the northern wall) overhanging and fairly featurless. Uses same anchor as Secret of the Golden Flower.

(#17) Getting off the ground is the hard part of this climb, the rest is pretty easy. Start at the far left end of the western wall above the archway, the anchors are on the ledge halfway up the wall. Accessable if you walk up the side outside the cave.

Start between Go Ban! and the Bat Hold, use the bolts from the Bat Hold and traverse over to use the anchors from Go Ban!. There are sort of half pipe like features in the rock, this one goes up the second half pipe from the left.

(#18) An interesting start and finish, easy middle. Jump start at the leftmost end of the arch, push your feet off the wall under the arch and stay to the left of the bolt line. The anchors are on the opposite wall (almost behind you as you get to the top) and require either quite a long reach, or quite a long run out to traverse around to them. Alternate start is fully under the archway.

(#19) Pre clip the first bolt underneath the archway, around the middle. Jump to grab the natural bar and insert feet into the holes. Work your way out onto the face slightly to the right of the start (alternate: exit the arch more to the left for "The Bat Hold") once on the face stay to the right of the bolt line. from halfway up the face join "The Bat Hold" to the same anchors.

(#3 on the topo) In the tube like feature straight ahead when you enter the area. Good stemming warmup. Named for Seam Sarorn, one of Cambodia's foremost climbing instructors. [At last check bottom bolt was missing, preclip the upper bolt]

To the right of the tube, use same anchors as Sarorn's Birthday. Climb up the sharp end of the little jutting out rock. [At last check bottom anchor was missing]

(#12 on the topo) When headed down pass the cave entrance on your right and the start of 12 and 13 will be on your left. No known details on this climb, presumably shares top anchor with #13.

Hard route coming out of the upper section of the cave. No known beta, bolts are a little far in between. Belay from the landing 1/3 of the way down the cave.

(#5 on topo) Start to the left of the pointy boulder. Uses the same anchors as Temple Gully Buttress, but exits the gully to the left and climbs the face. First and second bolt are slightly run out and it's much hotter outside the gully but the climb is, overall, easier. [Note:assigned grade disagrees.]

(#6 on topo) A fun climb with an easy walk off (if you prefer not to lower-off) the belay is a little bit steep, suggest tying off to the tree. The bolt line meanders just a bit, the real line goes fairly vertical the whole way, but the crux is easy to skip if you want an easy day by traversing along the ledge to the right.

Bolted climb. Shares anchor with 7-2, 7-3.