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Cirque des Escargots

  • Grade context: FR
  • Photos: 1
  • Ascents: 17
  • Aka: Baume des Escargots

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Access issues inherited from France

Some privately owned climbing areas may have restricted access. Check with https://www.ffme.fr/

Approach

50 m abseiling, Jumar compulsory for the return.

Ethic inherited from France

Park where indicated, take care of the environment, buy the local guidebook when possible (this is one of the ways you can help local route setters), clean up your shoes before climbing, don't spray beta, be polite.

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1 6c+
2 7b

Same start as Hélix au pays des Merveilles, then as Moksha, end as Kmira.

Set: Fedric Ferraro

FA: Cédric Lachat, 8 Jun 2014

Same start as Staphylocoque.

Set: Fedric Ferraro

FA: Sébastien Bouin, 9 Jul 2015

Same start as Hélix au pays des Merveilles.

Set: Fedric Ferraro

FFA: Gérôme Pouvreau, 2012

FA: Sébastien Bouin, 16 Jun 2017

Extension of "Legend".

Set: Sébastien Bouin, 2018

FFA: Sébastien Bouin, Apr 2023

The route just left of Rois du Pétrole to the first anchor. Freed by Sébastien Bouin and proposed "hard 9a" or "soft 9a+".

In 2020 a key hold in the second crux broke making it 9a+.

Set: Fédric Ferraro

FFA: Sébastien Bouin, 26 May 2019

This is Beyond with its extension

Set: Set by Fédric Ferraro

FA: Sébastien Bouin, 22 Oct 2020

FA: Caroline Ciavaldini, 2009

1 8b+
2 8c+

Climbed by Charlotte Durif (24/7/2010)

Extension of the 8b.

FFA: Sébastien Bouin, 14 Oct 2020

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