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Grade | Route | Gear style | Popularity | ||
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Ben Nevis Red Rock | |||||
15 | The Road
Extremely run out. | 83m, 3 | |||
12 | Confidence Trick
Bolts extremely hard to find. | 110m, 3 | |||
12 | Brown Wall
Best reached by abseiling in on 2 ropes from the native cherry trees at the Nth end of cliff. | 90m | |||
16 | Pit Stop
Starts just below confidence Trick at a flake, crack. | 250m, 5 | |||
17 | Traitors Gate
Starts 8m R of Pitstop where the angle drops back at the lowest part of the cliff and there's a shallow black groove. | 260m, 7 | |||
16 | Graniticus Slabiticus
Companion Route to Traitors Gate, but takes a more direct line. | 200m, 4 | |||
15 | Lost Innocence
Start as for Cobblers | 160m, 3 | |||
17 | Cobblers
Follows the R edge of the central slab, starts in the large gully in the centre of the cliff, L of Peeping Tom. 3x50m Pitches. | 150m, 3 | |||
20 | Living on the Edge
Up the rib of buttresses on the R of the central recessed wall (top of the gully). | 150m, 3 | |||
19 | Keeping in Touch
From the base of the buttress L of Yasser. 3rd Pitch Steps down to the R and ascents short corner (this last pitch could be done in it's own right by rapping down 30m from the rap chains). | 130m, 3 | |||
18 | ★ Endless Summer
Great sustained climbing, although there are some long runouts on the 2nd crux pitch, and belay stances not very clear. Start at the block that leans against cliff. Up the LH side of the face L of Yasser. 1) 35m, BR at 10m. 2) 45m 18, 3 BR's and some gear - up to a rounded horn (sling) - belay above. 3) 50m, Up crack, moving L to buttress, climb the RH arete (poor pro) to easy ground. 4) 20m - Up to belay in cracks on headwall; walk off R. | 150m, 4 | |||
14 | ★ Yasser
An enjoyable mixed trad and carrot bolt slab climb on good friction slab. -Pitch 1 ~40m, grade 12: Start on the block 3-6m left of the descent line and head directly upwards to a double carrot bolt anchor. Multiple good pieces of pro along the way, no carrot bolts. Avoid using the bolt on Endless Summer which is 4-5m to the left. -Pitch 2 ~40m, grade 14: Continue from double bolt belay upwards for 4-5m then ever so slightly to the left before heading back towards the short shallow let facing corner. From here head up and slightly back to the left until a ledge on which a natural anchor can be constructed in the crack. Again various trad gear available and without carrot bolts. -Pitch 3 ~40m, grade 13: Head directly up from ledge past multiple carrot bolts and staying to the left of the darker moss, flattens out over the bulge to a double hanger belay. -Pitch 4 ~30m, grade 13: Head up and slightly to the left on easy territory, staying well to the right of the vegetated crack. Over the lip and then on easy ground to the rappel anchors. | 150m, 4 | |||
15 | ★★ 1000 Watts
Our intent was a safe and well protected and hopefully one available to the masses. I think we succeeded. Start 15mt down below the Endless Summer - Yasser block and just past a jumble of boulders.
And the name!! Well we thought the climb was "Brilliant" FA: John Morris, Chris Watson & Steve Morris, 2008 | 170m, 4, 14 | |||
16 | ★★ Peeping Tom
Start of the foot of the buttress, at pronounced water streak. | 180m, 4 | |||
13 | ★ Tom Tom
Slab climbing. Starts up Peeping Tom (foot of buttress), but goes R from BR at 14m. There's a traverse R on the 3rd Pitch. Bit run out. Mostly bolt runners. Take hangers. | 150m, 4, 12 | |||
17 | ★★ Closer To Fine
Starts at the L most black streak on the face 30m up the gully right of the toe of the buttress. | 130m, 3 | |||
18 | The Drums The Drums
"Superb, run-out slabbing pitch". A direct first pitch to Tom Tom, finishing at that climb's 3rd belay stance. | 48m | |||
19 | Ground Up
Start from Terrace just up R of Millionaire. | 150m, 4 | |||
16 | Millionare
Clean rock and great 2nd pitch. From the base of peeping Tom, scramble down and R through scrub and down to the base of a large grey slab. Last pitch finishes L wards towards the abseil descent. | 200m, 4 | |||
13 | Oh Carol
First pitch as for Millionaire, P2 takes the buttress above up past bush and thin flakes. | 190m, 4 | |||
8 | Ramble On
Way over R before the main wall begins to shorten. | 220m, 6 | |||
Ben Nevis North Cliff | |||||
7 | Frost Bite
| 100m | |||
7 | Moment Of Truth
| 110m | |||
16 | ★★ The Great Pretender
| 86m | |||
12 | ★ Lovely Ann
I climbed this in the mid-1990s and the bolts were completely rusted out and came out in my hand. I can't imagine they have got any better since. | 94m | |||
15 | ★ Charlatan
| 130m | |||
16 | ★ Lord High Executioner
| 100m | |||
18 | Bill And Ben
| 15m | |||
18 | Via Ferret
| 150m | |||
18 | ★★★ Big Ben
Long way down on the North Cliff, this climb is identified by a step-like fault line that begins on a large treed ledge at the base and continues (slightly right trending), onto the slabs above. The "steps" are about the size of your hand and harder to climb than they look. The first pitch (40m), accepts numerous nut placements of varying sizes, as well as the 9 carrot bolts, so it's not run out, so long as you treat it as a mixed trad and sport route. | 110m |
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