Climbs

Rats Return was set by the Tension crew early on for the Tension Board 2 Mirror as a V12 at 40°. It has since been done at 45° as a V13, and 50° as a V14. Sean Houchins-McCallum has shown interest in opening it at 55°.

A controversial route. After the first ascent Glenn Robbins abseiled the route in anticipation of an attempt by Andy Pollitt and Chris Hamper and identified several chipped holds. Mark Edwards then abseiled the line and agreed holds had been chipped, and suggested that other climbers, out to discredit him, had done this after he made the first ascent. However Paul Pritchard had previously been on the line in February 1988 and found chipped holds, suggesting that at least some holds had been chipped prior to the first ascent.

Rowland Edwards:

A very sad and dramatic event has been the removal of the bolts from Red Rose at Sennen and the drastic chipping of the route. No culprit has been found but this is the third time this has happened on Sennen cliffs (and all to Mark Edwards's routes.) All the routes had previously been checked as unchipped from either second ascentionists or those involved in the original ascents and observers. A very sad state of affairs which is seriously making Mark Edwards consider not recording any of his hard routes, which would be very sad indeed. [1]

References

[1] Mountain Issue 131 (1990), page 15 and 49 /library/11316/mountain-131

[2] Mountain Issue 133 (1990), page 17 /library/11117/mountain-133

The name comes from an earlier version of the route which featured many artificial holds.