LANCASHIRE ROCK

This site is a digital copy of the 1997 BMC guidebook to rock climbing in Lancashire

Eggyoka Buttress

  • 1 - Lumumba

    Grade: 4a | First Ascent: (Pre-1975)
    Rating: 0

    Climb the right-hand part of the wall using fingery edges and finish up a split above the horizontal break.

  • 2 - Enyoka

    Grade: 5b | First Ascent: -1967
    Rating: 1

    Start one metre to the left behind an ash tree and climb to the horizontal break via a slim corner. Finish up the bulging wall above using a very high slot.

  • 3 - Eggyoka

    Grade: | First Ascent: (Pre-1975)
    Rating: 0

    The open corner that identifies this buttress.

  • 4 - Monkey Wrench

    Grade: | First Ascent: (Pre-1987)
    Rating: 0

    Climb the bulging buttress on the left, which is split by a wide crack, then finish up the wide cracks above the break.

  • 5 - Rock Ivy Line

    Grade: | First Ascent: (Pre-1987)
    Rating: 0

    The shallow, blocky groove on the left.

  • 6 - Anaconda

    Grade: 4a | First Ascent: (Pre-1987)
    Rating: 1

    The smooth finger-crack two metres left of Rock Ivy Line.

  • 7 - Primrose Path

    Grade: 4a | First Ascent: (Pre-1987)
    Rating: 0

    Pleasant horizontal gymnastics. Start up Lumumba then girdle steadily leftwards, to finish just before a flourish of yew antlers, by climbing Anaconda. The route originally continued past this, but has been shortened to avoid some very doubtful blocks.