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Grade Route Gear style Popularity
6 Key hole Scramble

Exit the key hole and climb down past rappel station, sticking to easy terrain.

Trad 30m
21 Cold Storage

The wall 2 metres left of 'French Crack' is very poorly protected.

FA: Mark Moorhead & Chris Shepherd, 1980

Trad 11m
17 French Crack

The lovely thin crack.

FA: John Moore, Alec Campbell & Chris Dewhirst, 1966

Trad 11m
12 French Crack P2

Instead of scrambling up to the top of Pharos, climb straight up from the DBB of FC. Plenty of gear and good belay on top around a boulder

Trad 20m
13 The Daunting Slither

Offwidth 5 meters right of French Crack. Part of the old descent route, usually abseiled but not always.

Trad 8m
19 Rommel

The flake at the left end of the south-east facing wall just above and right of "French Crack"

FA: Jeremy Boreham & Rod Young, 1978

Trad 15m
21 Sostratus Cnidius

Wall between 'Rommel' and 'Trespassers Prosecuted'.

FA: Paul Deacon & Clive Curson, 1990

Mixed trad 12m, 2
22 Trespassers Prosecuted

Short cracked overhang 2 metres right of "Rommel".

FA: Glenn Tempest & Kevin Lindorff, 1978

Trad 15m
3 French Tennis

Jeu do paume. Combined with 'Key hole Scramble', a useful access to or egress from the Tennis Court.

Start on the ledge below 'French Crack'.

Traverse right into the bay ('Five Fingered Mary') to an exposed step around and up the rib. Possible belay at chains ('Horus') to reduce rope drag. Scramble onto the Tennis Court.

FA:

Trad 30m

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