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Pearson's Deviation
Area | Sector | Pitches | FAGrade | Grade | Length | Bolts | Top | Setters | year |
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St Catherine | Mahshour West Face | 3 | HVS 4c | 5b | 100 | trad | D. Peterson, D&E Wilson | 2009 |
a good pitch, but not well protected in the first half. Belay 10m before the end of the normal pitch V) 18 2i) 50m. Make a balancy step up onto a gradually ascending line of weakness. Follow the line rightwards, dropping down slightly to cross small groove, and a little later climbing up a meter or two before traversing to blocks below the righthand end of the overhang. 2ii) 50m. Scramble easily up over blocks, then walk left along a ledge to a big boulder. 2iii) 10m. Easily up to the dyke a few meters right of the chimney
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