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Jebel Banat

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Jebel Banat (Mountain of the Lady) lies to the North East of St Katherine’s. It is an easy 2.5-hour
walk from the small town of Zeituna. Zeituna is a 5 min taxi ride back out along the road out of
St Katherine’s. Mohammed knows the area well and it is advised to use him as a guide.
The walk in is slightly down hill the whole way and camels can almost make it all the way to the
camp. Camp in the valley at the top of the main steep boulder field in a sandy hollow. The
bouldering is great and a bouldering mat should be brought. The sun is on the camp from 07:00
to about 14:00. The camp can become windy in the afternoon.
The climbing is generally all on the east face and the routes climb up on great rock. The lower
right hand end to the face has some classic long single pitch routes. An abseil is needed to access
the base of the Northwest face. The abseil is about 45m long and it goes from a large thread in
one of the pools at the top of the waterfall line. Abseil tat is needed to set this abseil up.
To descend off the summit requires over an hour of walking and should be done in the light
unless you have done it before. It is not straightforward

Access

From Abu Sila village, northeast of St. Catherine you head over Naqb Fariea into the wider Farsh Fariea and over Bustan Birka will descend into Wadi Nogra. Before hitting the Waterfall Sid Nogra in that valley, head over left towards Jebel Banat and then you'll have the options to either ascend via the hiking route or descent down to the shoulder of the NW face or you rappel on a thread in the Waterfall area 45m down to the very bottom of the NW face.

In this Sector:

In the Topos below you can find the route numbers and in the Table at the end the corresponding Routes. To submit your report, click on the description of the Route or on it's Name

Name
No in Topo
Pitches
Grade
Length
Bolts
Anchor
Description
Setters
year
Jerusalem
10
13
6b+
430
trad
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Geoff Hornby, Susie Sammut
2007
Palestine
9
10
6b+
375
trad
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Geoff Hornby, Susie Sammut
2007
Call of the Wild
9/10
7
6a
240
trad
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Geoff Hornby, Susie Sammut, Adam Ghani
2004
Feet are for dancing
3
6
6c+
150
trad
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Dave?
2004?
The Youth
4
6
6b
trad
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2004?
The Fabulous Baker Boys
2
4
6b
trad
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Dave?
2004?
Mole Route
1
3
5b
130
trad
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Adam Ghani, Alex Nicholson
2004
Rough Rider
11
3
6c+
35
trad
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Richard Sonnerdale, Max Dutson
2004?
Mel&Tim
13
3
6c
trad
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Mel, Tim, Pike? Sonnerdale?
2004?
Smooth operator
11
2
6c+
60
trad
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Richard Pike, Richard Sonnerdale
2004?
Old Boot
12
2
7b
60
trad
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Pike?Sonnerdale?
2004?
Walk like an Egyptian
5
trad
-
Richard Pike
2004?
Walk like an Egyptian direct
6
trad
-
Richard Sonnerdale
2004?
Possum magic
7
5b
long
trad
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Dave Lucas, Melissa Nesbitt
2004
Alex's Route
8
trad
-
2004?
Third time lucky
14
5b
45
trad
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Richard Pike, Adam Ghani
2004?
Banana Bread
1
12
6c+
477
trad
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Richard Sonnerdale, Richard Pike
2004
Nord Verschneidung
BT1
11
6a A1
300
trad
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Peter Frei, Gadi, Yutty, 1978
1978
North West Face
2
9
6b+
500
trad
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Dave Lucas, Richard Sonnerdale
2004
Jebel Banat Nordsporn
BT2
9
5a
trad
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Peter Frei, Gadi, Yutty, 1978
1978
Cold heart of stone
3
7ish
trad
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Dave Lucas, David Barlow
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