Ascents in 黎明 Liming by Patrick Munnings

Repeat

Linked the 2 pitches. Was an excellent last route of the trip!

Fell above the 2nd bolt and back cleaned back to the anchor.

Reason 644 to return to China. Unreal! Repeated the first two pitches to check out the amazing P3. About 5.12- to a good rest half way, then the angle kicks back even more and the jams get consistently thinner. It tests every size thoroughly from 2-.3 with at least 2m of each size. I did all the moves but would need to improve my technique in .75. The pump would be all time by the fingers section where the feet run out. Definitely a dream route!

Climbed with the first piece pre-placed from an earlier attempt falling at the crux. The best crack pitch of my life so far. Exposed, powerful and varied. Was an incredibly desperate send and nearly pumped out in multiple places. So good!

Installed glue in anchors on all three pitches, repeated to access Honeycomb Dome

Felt good to put this away at the end of a hard session on Another World. My absolute anti-style but super fun and very unique.

The new best pitch of crack climbing I have done in my life, steep tight hands, amazing snaking shape of the crack, variety of moves and such an exposed position 😜

Linked all three pitches to rig a fixed line and access Another World

Sublime! Fought hard and beat the bloody ringlocks.

Some exploratory digging through pickles and dirt waterfalls. FA and installed an anchor. Will be a worthwhile route now that it's clean. A full value long pitch added to an already very popular crag.

Dirty and not so great rock. Moves were good. The anchor was super sketchy

Turns out I can't really ringlock. Will try again.

Cool and felt a lot like a trad route but dirty. Sat at most bolts.

Moves were cool, but the rock was a bit ordinary.

OMG unexpected, but first lead attempt I climbed this better than ever and flowed to the top. So happy to come away with this tick from an amazing time in China. Huge thanks to Hannah for the belay / hiking efforts.

Right variation full pitch, harder than it looks.

The most wild move I've done outside of a climbing gym. A wall run to a jug on an arete and then beautiful climbing to the top. Sick!!

Also great. One long pitch.

Super quality.

Rad, tricky offwidthing just after turning a roof. Linked the two pitches for more goodness. Some awkward sizes.

Super quality, interesting and sustained long pitch of thin climbing

great technical straight in fingers

Cool roof sequence and some interesting movement of various styles the whole way.

Would be a classic if the rock quality was better. Quite flakey. A 50m pitch with all sorts of sizes and techniques. It definitely beat me with two sits in the offwidth. Climbed in one pitch.

Excellent quality, bit short and definitely scary with a runout that gets close to groundfall potential.

Excellent, however, full layback pitches are kind of not so exciting. If it was longer and pumpier it might have added some interest but pretty much the same move the whole way.

Amazing hard corner climbing. Did not free the bolted section due to not identifying a single hold or body position. After this the rock and climbing is absolutely tops.

Whipped from the overhanging offwidth trying to manage my rope.

Awesome

Broke the best hold off the route today making the easier start a grade or two harder. Worked out better beta for the start and the crux. Next session might be on lead.

Another working session. This time in the morning, placing gear and trailing a rope. One fall at the crux. Not warmed up.

Linked p2&3 and 6&7. An awesome outing but the descent down the Spearhead gully was a serious adventure.

Repeat for toprope

Got inverted well and was making progress but could not get past a cam and then slipped out of a no hands rest upside down 🙃. The hand crack at the end is much harder than I expected as well

Seriously fun with a solid 8m of butterfly stacks and knee locks

Not for me but thought I'd check ot out.

Squeeze chimney fun!

Fantastic and interesting jamming, so good.