Artificial or natural ascents in Wadi Rum by Ali Hasan

The extension last pitch is a must !

Requires big cams in the first real pitch (2nd)

Amazing maze, route finding challenge more than a climbing challenge.

Took around 10 hours round trip, even though we took a longer route on ridge, but we climbed the whole eye of allah route simul-climbing doing micro pitches.

Rock mostly solid (Rum standards)

The day was short, I wish I had one more hour to continue to the east summit, highly recommend sleeping at the top and continue the trip to the summit if you have the time.

Descent: Easiest way down is rap the eye of allah (short raps many places that could get the rope stuck) back to the siq, do one rap in the siq to reverse a hard boulder problem, then up and back up the chimney to Hammads route south, follow it down doing 2 raps to the hidden rocky gully (Took exactly 3 hours for a team of 4)

We did on 3 pitches. P1: 5+ chimney then easy to belay p2: 5- Slaby crack p3: 5+ One handjam/crrack one overhang bit

P1: 5sh, crack P2: 5- Nice mix of chimney like and P3: 4 Slight overhang moves p4: 3 short crack up to huge ledge p5: traverse left and climb up 3+/4 to the sub-summit

FFA.