Very direct and sustained. On the opening ascent one rope got jammed in a vertical fissure near the top resulting in a minor epic, hence the name.

Tou-Jam

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Approach & Descent»
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Approach

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Start from the next recess left of the slab at the beginning of Atlantic Wall (or the start of the B-Route to the ledge above). This is immediately right of the projecting, undercut nose/face capped high up by an overhang.

Descent

Crag Descent:
Lionshead Sandstone
Sector Descent:
The Lookout Sector

Route Description

P1 - 25m, 6a: Start up the block stack immediately right of the undercut, projecting face. After 3m, move left, around the corner and onto the slabby face. Climb up to the roof and pull through it using a vertical crack and a bucket hold above the lip. Continue to the vegetated band above. Scramble up and slightly right to an orange recess/cave in crumbly rock, directly below a crack running up the front of a pointed prow.

P2 - 12m, 5b: Climb through the cave/recess until able to continue up the crack to a ledge. The stance is on the right on a corner beneath an overhang and is shared with Atlantic Wall.

P3 - 35m, 6c: Climb the flaky corner above the stance to a triangular, white roof. The crack continues through the roof and up the prow above. Jam stenuously through the roof crack until able to use a small lay-away hold deep in the crack to establish oneself on the face above. Continue up to a small cubby-hole stance. Pull through the overhang above and continue up to a stance near a cairn.

P4 - 25m, 4b: Climb the bulging under-cut rib above the stance and right of Atlantic Wall's final easy recess. Scrambling leads to the top.

Alternate Description

Tips & Tricks

A variation that keeps the grade down the 6a is to use the third pitch of Atlantic Wall.

Video

Drakensberg Grading
French / South African
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A variation that keeps the grade down the 6a is to use the third pitch of Atlantic Wall.

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