Walk up India Venster to below the middle buttress rock scrambles. Traverse left around this all the way into the Africa Ravine. The route starts in Africa Amphitheatre at the highest point of the ravine, slightly right of centre.

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1.    10m '13': Ascend the undercut recess and then onto a long ledge.

2.    22m '15': Traverse along the ledge for 8m, a high reach over a bulge and a strenuous pull-up enable a move up onto a ledge. Climb a face for 3m and then move diagonally left into a series of recesses leading to a good stance above.

3.      28m '19': Ascend a narrow slit situated directly above the last pitch. Stretch up to a handrail. A series of tricky moves leads to the overhang above. Move down and traverse 5m to the left to a small ledge. Traverse to the left around the corner and climb up to a bushy stance.

4.     36m '13': Ascend the face above, and then climb diagonally left for 28m before moving right to a good stance level with the Right to Arrow Face Traverse.

5.     18m '13': Climb a crack to the right for 5m and continue up a recess to a stance at the top of the large blocks which form the corridor to the Right to Arrow Face Traverse.

6.      28m '18': Step off the right-hand side of the stance and climb the face for 9m to a handrail. Traverse to the left for Sm and move up past a narrow crack. Continue up to a narrow stance.

7.   9m '10': Climb diagonally up to the right to a small stance under a small overhang.

8.  25m '20': Traverse5m to the left and move up on\o a smooth saucer shaped face. Climb up past a peg and then do a few pull-ups to a high rail. Rail right to a stance.

9.  18m '17': Step out onto the nose to the right and climb the crack above. Balance up to a handrail and move onto a corner, bearing left to a large cave-like stance.

"It is  definitely  non-U  to  traverse right to the lily pond for lunch at this point."

D. Cheesmond 50 Selected Routes 1978.

10. 11m '17': About 4m to the right of where the cave peters out, reach up through the overhang and pull up onto the face above. Climb the face to a stance on the left.

11. 9m'14': Climb up the recess in the corner, and then traverse out to the left on an extremely exposed nose to a good stance on the tip of the overhang.

12. 30m '13': Move to the left and ascend the face to the large ledge. Traverse to the left along the ledge for approximately 1,5 rope-lengths. The next pitch continues up a cor¬¨‚â†ner directly below a large overhanging corner immediately to the left of Africa Face and Africa Sideburn.

13. 18m '14': Ascend the face slightly to the right of the corner ridge and to the left of the bushy recess containing Africa Sideburn. Climb to a stance below the large overhang.

14.  12m '12': Traverse left and then continue past an awkward block moving down to a good stance.

15.  6m '13': Climb directly upwards, avoiding loose flakes, to a stance on the left.

16.  12m '20': Traverse to the right to an undercut open-book recess. Climb the open-book until it is possible to move to the right to a good stance.

Variation:12m '16': Traverse to the right at the bottom of the open-book recess. Continue up the recess to a good stance.

17. 35m '14': Ascend the overhanging crack slightly to the right and above the last pitch. After 8m of climbing, ascend the face above more or less diagonally up to the right. The last 9m are up a series of blocks.

18.18m '16': Ascend the corner to the left with a tricky take-off and climb up to a large ledge above.

A scramble leads to the top.

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