Start: One meter right of the Lily Pond on Africa Ledge.
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1. 11m '16': Ascend the crack on the right of a smooth face. First move into the left-hand side of the cave and then up the crack using a chockstone. Continue up to a stance.
2. 26m '14': Climb 6m up the crack directly above to the ceiling. Traverse to the left for 10m to a corner on the skyline. Move up to a cubby-hole, continue Sm to a climber's friend bush.
Traverse below this and up to Upper Africa Ledge. Walk left along the ledge towards the Africa Crag nose.
3. 30m 16: Start up the crack (as for Africa Crag), then continue up to a small stance below a jammed block. The original pitch went up the bulging face just to the right of the Africa Crag chimney/crack (17). Only purists will do this.
4. 12m '16': Move to the right around the block, climb up to the triangular overhang, tra­verse to the left and mantelshelf on to a small stance. Use the slanting handrail above to swing onto the corner on the left where you can stand. A meter above there is another handrail. Use this to traverse left to a slanting foot-ramp, move up to another handrail. Continue left to a good stance around the corner (shared with Africa Crag).
5. 18m '17': Start 3m to the left below a bulging face. Climb 5m and mantelshelf on to a narrow stance. Climb up a meter or two and then balance left to the recess. Climb the 7m recess to a good stance. It is also possible to start the pitch in the recess - proba­bly less scary!
There is a final pitch. This is normally avoided by using the last pitch of Africa Crag.
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Climb pitch 1 of Africa Wall to get to Upper Africa Ledge. Walk to the far left hand side to the Africa Crag Nose. thereby you skip p1 and 2 of the original route.
Combine pitch 3 and 4 to make a long 45m pitch of excellent quality.
You are now on the same big stance on Africa Crag. Follow this route's pitch 6 onwards. You do however then miss out on the crux.
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