Start at the extreme south (left) end of the lower tier on a steep red crag at a prominent platform.
15 m - Climb to the platform, lake the crack up the right wall on good holds on hollow sound rock. Move right onto the nose, exposed, and up through a tree (runner) onto a ledge.
15 m - Climb the larger of two cracks, which has a tree at its foot, over a bridge on good holds to where the crack splits into a V, step across to the top of the right hand crack onto a boulder and ascend the nose on the right.
The rock on this pitch is fragile and should be handled with care, hence the name.
In the middle of Machakos Crag is a prominent large flat wall undercut at its base, a break in the lower tier leads up to near the foot of it. The wall is named “The Shield". The climb follows its right edge more or less and its multiple variations are the result of three ropes converging on the same bit of rock. The wall has obvious possibilities and the climb described will probably have its starts and alternative starts and finishes used by other routes.
18 m - either: climb a short crack just left of the edge, hand traverse left and mantleshelf into another crack line-, move back right and up a little way and then move back left to climb a little nose on superb holds in a fine position; alternatively, just on the right of the ridge make a pull up onto the ridge and up until it is possible to move out to the nose. The ledge reached is broad and has a thick bush on its left.
15 m - Three alternatives:- (a) Climb the slab left of the bush and then move right unto the chimney; (b) Take the centre of the slab behind the belay and move left to climb directly up the nose on the right of the chimney; (c) An easier line up slabs on the right.
FA:Miss J.M., I.D. R.P., Miss C.B. P.A.C.(I), A.B., The parties responsible for this muddle were: & R.J.H.C, 1965
Start above a small cave in red rock at the top of the grassy break.
30m Climb the vegetated corner turning a block on the left to the foot of a small wall. Climb the wall and pleasant chimney above. The pitch could be broken at the wall or the foot of the chimney.
