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Grade: 4b | First Ascent: (1974-75)
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The small slab at the right-hand side of the prow.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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The sharply-pointed prow is climbed direct. How now bold prow!
Grade: 4a | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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The crack immediately to the left of the prow.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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Climb the blunt nose strenuously.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: -2002
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Just left to a mantle finish.(More of a variant bur good.)
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: (1974-75)
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Start at a crack on the left and make a hard move, then move right to finish at the top of Blurt.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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Climb the next crack directly to the top avoiding the obvious easy cop-out leftwards.
Grade: | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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Climb the awkward, polished corner.
Grade: 6b | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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The undercut arête just left of the corner; short but very sharp!
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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Climb the undercut `desbritt` crack on the left of the arête to a tiny niche.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: (1975-79)
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Climb direct up the centre of the wall on the left.
Grade: 5c | First Ascent: (1975-79)
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Start up the left side of the wall then climb rightwards along the thin horizontal crack to finish up Dezertion.
Grade: 6a | First Ascent: (1975-79)
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The left arête is climbed via an awkward crack, and avoiding the large jug on the arête. Finish in a rather comic way!
Grade: | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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The rightward-curving crack on the left.
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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Start from a block and climb the centre of the next wall direct.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -2001
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A direct line up the bulging wall from the block on Dezis Wall and the flake at the start of Tiptoe.
Grade: 4b | First Ascent: -1974
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Traverse the next slab from right to left (the top must not be used) and continue to the far corner.
Grade: 4a | First Ascent: (1974-75)
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Climb the exact centre of the slab to a ledge and broken wall above.
Grade: | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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The corner on the left.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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From a pedestal three metres left of the corner, climb the wall above.
Grade: | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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The broken, slanting groove on the wall left of the slab.
Grade: 5b | First Ascent: (Pre-1969)
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From the foot of Bunnie`s Dilemma climb the wall direct.
Grade: | First Ascent: (1974-75)
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Pass the obvious pocket to reach the rib.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: (1979-83)
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Traverse the wall low from Bunnie`s Dilemma to Pocket Hole Wall.
Grade: 4b | First Ascent: -1974
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An eliminate line, but in a horizontal dimension. Around the rib is a tiny amphitheatre of slabby rock. Starting at the right edge of this, traverse left without using the top for hands, to finish at the left arête; good fun.
Grade: 5a | First Ascent: (1974-75)
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The clean overhanging block left of Magic Circle. Grasp the top and mantel, numerous variations being possible (backwards, etc).
Grade: 4c | First Ascent: -1966
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Go directly over the jutting roof.
Grade: 4b | First Ascent: (Pre-1975)
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The steep wall just to the left.