Ascents in Grande Grotta

Too pumped after Elephant.... no chance. But loving it

Easy moves.. But just very steep for a very very long way..

Knee bars galore meant an easy send

So much climbing, so much tufa. First real 3 dimensional climbing for me. It was an epic event.

Solid tufa climbing.

Hard boulder section!

Skipp a few bolts at the beginning and its ok to go. The hardest move is at the very top

First day on Kaly ever and first route on the island. So many good memories! I took a fall because I couldn't get onto the first sitdown saddle.

Got lost/retarded in the top tufas and decided to sit rather than blow gaskets, amazing fun route.

warm up route, nice climb for the grade! easy start to an interesting finish!

Fun

Did better on this than I expected! Cool climb, even though overhangs aren’t my thing - lots of nice holds.

Beautiful route a little soft if you're used to use your knees on tufas.

Steep and long! With full set of draws the last part is more amazing

2nd go

My new benchmark for mega-classic! Very intuitive and a kneebar every 3 moves. First 7a+ onsight.

Attempted repeat. 1 hang. Draws up for the group.

The rock and climbing are beautiful, but ita just too squeezy with all the neighbouring routes

The classic kalymnos style with a long move in the lower part right before the tufa mushroom rest

Good, smaller stuff in the lower part and bridging between tufas in the upper part

Stupidly overhanging at the grade. I found so many upside down no-hands rests on this that I reached the top feeling as fresh as if I'd just climbed a 6c.

Foot slip at the crux, otherwise clean. Aw well... the queue to get on this was too long to justify a 2nd round. Awesome steepness with a genuine gnarly move in the middle. More demanding as a climber than DNA.

No rope drag when combing pitches this way! Short flowstone slab. High quality for a proper easy climb.

Classic 6c if the anchor draw is on. "Average" 7a if you have to put it on (in hideous high humidity). I cant respect a route where the only thing hard about it is putting on the anchor draw. Otherwise: its short, crazy, stalagtite humping steepness at a proper tame grade.