Access

Permits are required to climb here and can be obtained at Dwarsrivier reception.

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Aspect and Weather

‍This sector is in the shade for most of the day. Routes get wet when it rains.

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Climbing

This face offers some of Wolfberg's mega-classic routes.

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Base

A tea cave can be found at the base of Celestial Journey. The base of most of the routes are fairly comfortable.

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Drive up the road behind the Sanddrif camp-site. Pass trough the locked gate (combination with permit) and continue until reaching a large parking area. Follow the obvious path up the shallow ravine to the base of the rock face.

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The most common descent from the routes on the Wolfberg Cracks is down the gaper crack. It is not straightforward to find the top of the Gaper Crack so allow yourself enough time to do this.

Another fairly common descent is down the first crack. This does however involve one long abseil (40m) or some tricky scrambling. From the top of the South-east wall or South-west wall, head in the direction of the Energy Crisis prow, then drop into the gully before the prow. Follow the gully, then scramble over some boulders and down a series of short faces and ledges to the lower of two trees. Abseil from here or continue around the corner and proceed into the back of a huge gaping black crack. Scrambled down and behind, then back out to the bottom of the crack.

The South-west gulley to the far left of the South-west wall can be used as a descent. From the top scramble down to a point about 25 meters from the ground. From here you will need to do one abseil.

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