Climbs

Climb Name Type Grade # Ascents Recorded Notes Exclude Reason
The Vortex Trad climb E8 1
The Votive Light Trad climb E9 1
The Wagon Wheel Boulder problem 8B+ 1
The Waiting Room Boulder problem 7C+ 1
The Waiting Room Low Start Boulder problem 8B 1
The Wall of Prey Trad climb E5 1
The Waterfall Princess Trad climb E8 1
The Wheel of Milk Boulder problem 8C 1
The White Horse Trad climb E7 1
The White Tower Trad climb E4 1
The Whore of Babylon Sport route 8a 1

Andy Pollitt was (unsurprisingly in retrospect) unable to free climb the full line of what later became Brandenburg Gate, with this line requiring 3 points of aid.
The Wild South Boulder problem 8C+ 1
The Wire Boulder problem 7C 1
The Wisdom Trad climb E5 1
The Wizard King Sport route 9a 1
The Wolf of Wall Street Trad climb E6 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 Yorkshireman SDS Boulder problem 7C+ 1

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