Ascents of The Second Coming

Think you can Mantle on slopers with grace think again this climb with keep you thinking is it wet or just slick. Only one way to find out.

Wigged out and grabbed a cam on polished start. Took again before committing to the mantle, not too bad once committed.

Craaaazy slippery, and quite stop-start, but the rock is impeccable, and the moves are gnarly. The mantle gave me a bit of grief, and the start of P2 was bouldery... but the runout finale on small gear up the face was eye-opening!

One of the best routes I did this trip. Both pitch’s challenging my mind and skills. I lead both pitch and got a bit lost up top of the second.

Accidentally climbed onto P1 from 'Judgement Day' and then bailed on P2 after a few metres.

The only near-epic of the trip. Dan led the first pitch well and I ended up on 'me timbers' accidentally. Bailed.

Bit of a brutal start and doesn’t feel very safe 🤣 managed to keep my head and get some good gear. The mantle was not pretty but I didn’t think it was the crux… until I top-roped it afterwards to clean gear and fell… a few times hahahah.

Good to settle the score on this one...still hard though!

A great start to an oppressive day

Our plan was to do Lamplighter but somehow we stupidly started here instead... We tried the slippery bouldery start for an hour, thinking this is really hard for a 10 😂😂 So glad we bailed after the first 2m and realised we were on the wrong climb and did not have to leave any gear behind.

Pitch 1 only. Great stuff, scary slippery start.

Just did the first pitch. Start is kinda tricky, and that airy mantle gets the blood pumping!

Maybe not “hand crafted by god himself”, but a great pitch

Good fun that mantle is a bit exciting

After Rick's solid lead attempt, I went up on pre-placed gear to the crux. Took a few good falls from the crux mantle before finding the crucial hold. Still felt stressed through the climbing from the ledge even though I had seconded through it before.

Fiddley gear and a committing crux! Great climb

Just did first pitch, wild!

I didn't think this was so great... 1st pitch only.

Radical. Just powered through the mantel

Pumpy, even on second! my giraffe like frame required a couple of different ideas for the mantle... Beta? Rhianna's pop hit "to the ..."

Initial attempt saw me climbing a little further into the crux and back off about 3 times before I fully committed to beta provided (heal hook mantel). Unfortunately I became stuck on the bulge with my left leg flailing in space. I subsequently received the whip. Shocked senseless I lowered in a smouldering heap and cowered off questioning if I should attempt it again and sure enough I was back that afternoon delicately working through the awkward initial moves to find myself at the pre-crux rest. I blasted up to find myself matching the hidden crimp for the crux mantel again but this time I had no intention of dropping it and I proceeded to pull myself up, knees scrapping, to find myself above the bulge and home free! Safe to say, only pitch 1 was lead. Gear up to the crux was left in place for the send.

Linked in to this from Kingdom Come to make a good outing. Steep and airy second pitch.