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Area
Sector
Pitches
FAGrade
Grade
Length
Bolts
Top
Setters
year
St Catherine
Safsafa NE Face
7
VII, 5.10+
6c+
trad
Daniel Peikes, Danny Wolfstein
1989

Pitch1: Go up a water groove (5.7) and then up and left in a corner (50m).

Pitch2: Continue up and left over broken terrain (5.8) to bottom of obvious corner (50m).

Pitch3: Up the corner (5.9)(50m).

Pitch4: Go to end of the crack and thru the roof (5.10+), to end of crack, hard to protect (small tricams), slab move (5.10) to pvo. 50m.

Pitch5: Walk up and right to right side of next slab (4) 50m.

Pitch6: Up corner (5.9+) and traverse right 15m (5.6) to big corner. 50m.

Pitch7: Out right (5.9) onto slab and up slab to top. 40m.

Pitches
FAGrade
est. grade
Length
Bolts
Top
Setters
year
7
VII, 5.10+
6c+
trad
Daniel Peikes, Danny Wolfstein
1989

Walk up the road leading to the monastery, about 500m, past the gate, to the junction in the road. From there go straight up head to the obvious slab. Start on the left side of the slab, some 20m right of a chimney.

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