Climbs / Index

All climbs

Ordered by the number of ascents recorded.

All Boulder problems 3,341 Trad climbs 2,640 Sport routes 2,186 Deep water solos 105 Aid Climbs 62 Boulder problems (indoor) 29 Alpine 24 Traverses 19 High Mountain 18
Climb Name Type Grade # Ascents Recorded Notes Exclude Reason
The Woman in White Sport route 8c 1
The World is Not Enough Sport route 9a 1
The World Is Not Flat Boulder problem 8B+ 1
The Wrinkled Retainer Trad climb E5 1

A route with a troubled start to life. There was an oak tree at the bottom of the route, and after the first ascent it was found the tree had been chopped. Assuming it was first ascentionist John Redhead who had done the deed Martin Boysen wrote to Crags magazine:

Dear Mr. Blockhead, I congratulate you on 'creating' the variation start to Desecration Crack - a fine little route which I did with John Yates lost year... It was a splendid tree and quite large to be growing in so inhospitable a place... Perhaps chain saws will soon be as small and convenient to carry as a large Friend. [1]

However it transpired that Redhead was innocent when the culprits came forward. Chris Shorter and Dave Nottidge wrote in to Mountain magazine:

We cut it down and, having done so, found we could not get up the climb. So we enlisted the services of John Redhead. When he saw what we had done he was genuinely shocked... John is an artist and a painter of natural life. His subsequent silence on the matter was purely to protect us... It was a foolish, thoughtless, and irresponsible action. [2]

The tree has subsequently regrown.

References

[1] Crags magazine, issue 26

[2] Mountain magazine, issue 78

[3] Ogwen And Carneddau (1993)
The Yoghurt Hypnotist Boulder problem 7B 1
The Yorkshireman SDS Boulder problem 7C+ 1
Thieves Carnival Trad climb E6 1
Thin Trad climb VS 1
Thin Wall Special Trad climb E1 1
This is the Sea Sport route 7c+ 1
Thon Grillé Sport route 9a 1
Thor Trad climb E3 1
Thormen's Moth Sport route 8a 1
Thor's Hammer 2 Sport route 9a+ 1
Three Billy Goats Gruff Sport route 8a+ 1
Three Hundred Pounds of Musclin’ Man Boulder problem 7C+ 1
Three More Reps Boulder problem 7B+ 1

One of John's training problems for The New Statesman
Three Pebble Slab Trad climb HVS 1
Three Squeaks and a Waggon Wheel Boulder problem 7B 1
Through the K-Hole Trad climb E7 1

The left hand side of Curving Arete.

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