Routes in Middle East for selected grade

Go past Seven to the left and here you are. There's an obvious crack line around the corner.

Natural anchor.

Dirty start leads to friable holds. Wear a helmet

Dirty and loose the whole way up. Wear a helmet.

Steep start to a small technical face

A steep start leads to a small bulge

Tricky climb requiring balance

A good warm up for the area

Pitch 1: Follow the bolted flake to the 2 bolt anchor. 5.8 Pitch 2: Continue up the technical lie-back crack. Careful on the run-out to the first bolt. Great technical moves. Finish on one good and one bad bolt. 5.10b/c Pitch 3: Move left and up the wide broken crack. 5.7 to a 2 bolt ancho

They say it's 5c. If you want it to be that you'd better climb a couple of first moves more to the right not straight up, though. Pretty slabby one. Good to get the hand of your foot work

Originally bolted by Alex Chabot and called Flake Appeal. In the spring of 2013 Mkhitar Mkhitaryan lead the route on gear, then made the decision to chop almost all the bolts and rename the route.

Two 60m ropes should get you to the ground, but as always, knot the end of your ropes!

Similar to Alecram but slightly harder. Climb up the pocketed slab and shares the last few bolts with Alecram and finishes at the same anchor

A fun route with varied climbing. Start in a crack and work your way up the face traversing to the right (crux) round the corner and finish up the easier slab.

This climbs the rib ditectly below the "not a church" religious site.

Six bolts to shared anchors with Centipede.

Reachey moves toward the top.

If you want more of a challenge in the Acid route, at the ledge instead of going left go straight up. A steep boulder problem with tight jams and lay-backing up the crack will bring you to the same anchors as for the route out left. The right variation goes at around 5.10, depending on hand-size.

It is the crack on the left of the route Something from nothing. You see the anchor from the bottom.

A water polished start leads to a thought provoking crux. Easier climbing brings you to the top.

If bolted routes could feel adventurous this one definitely does! While is it a bit dirty the position of the route is stunning!

Towards the top the belayer will lose sight of the climber and because of the close proximity to the river it will be hard to communicate. So make sure you have a plan before you leave the ground.

A 60m will get you down easily!

Tackle steep and chossy terrain for a few bolts until you get to a good stance under a bulge. Climb straight up the bulge for 2 bolts on somewhat hard-to-see but good edges (you need to find them between all the lichen.) Finish up on easier terrain. The bolting is a bit funky on this one. I'd recommend long draws on the first half of the route to prevent rope drag up top

A bit wandering, but one of the best at the crag! Bouldery climbing brings you to a somewhat dirty mantle above the 2nd bolt. Compose yourself then tackle the bulge above for 3 bolts of steeper climbing on big pocket/jugs to get to another ledge. Clip a few more bolts on easier terrain to gain the anchors.

Climb the crack in between Crack for Cheese and Middle Finger.

Climb up the shallow corner to a pedestal out right, then climb the face and left arete to a brief ledge rest. When ready tackle the last 2 bolts of steeper climbing using pockets, jugs, and the left arete. Try not to deviate too far to the right at any point or you'll find yourself on harder terrain with less flowing movement.

Start up Big Red Villis, but head right before the bulge to the anchors of Highway to the Comfort Zone.

Start up the ramp for Gohar's slab and climb up the right of the two cracks on the face. Face climbing around the thinning crack leads you higher. Small boulder problem towards the top rewards you with a few good finger locks to the clipping jug. Great nut placements are to be found on this route!

Climb up the boulder to a ledge to start the route. The beginning is the crux where you need to stem and get a few finger locks to reach the better crack above. Once past the initial steep part jam and layback your way up the corner with the occasional jug/large edge on either face for feet/rest. Shares the same anchors with Let's Face It.

Climb up the beautiful easy slab to the base of the steep wall. Climb out right using pinches and sloping feet to get better holds higher up then traverse left and use the corner-crackand the occasional face hold until you're faced with a beached-whale-type-mantle onto the belay ledge. Technique will help you on this route a lot more than brute strength will. Looks a lot easier than it is.

Start up come choosy rock until you're underneath a huge block. Hand traverse then continue up the face on incut rails

An awesome crack in a corner! If you don't know how to jam this will feel much harder! Climb up the corner with great jams. Pull a small bulge to get to the ledge.

Super neat slab climbing! Would get more stars if the bottom wasn't so dirty. Start by stemming between the wall and the big boulder. After the 2nd bolt go onto the face and climb up using a weird highstep and small sloping feet. Decipher another slightly puzzling crux to gain the last bolt then the anchors.

Another nice route right 2m right of "No10". The anchor is at the top and gives great views over the entire Xeros valley. Take a flask of tea up and enjoy. Can be somewhat loose - helmet recommended for the belayer.

Start at the undercut area at the left of the crag. Trend up and right. Difficult move, especially for the short, at third height. Then straight forward climbing to the top.

Another excellent route and the easiest of the ones on this wall. The crux is between the third and fourth bolts and is quite technical.

Nice demanding start, easy after the 4th bolt!

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Hard and sharp start, Easy-ish second half.

The lone route up the middle of the small rock to the left.

Up light-colored vertical rock over the small bulge, then easier ground to the top.

"It depends" - if you start from right is 5b if you start from left is 5c. A couple of steep pulls gain easy ground.

A hard bouldery start gains the easy slab - seriously unbalanced.

The steep and bold feeling left arete of the face.

This is the imposing ramp/crack-line that runs across the right wall of the canyon. There are more trad routes to the right on this block.

The slabby left-hand side of the canyon - glue-ins.

Start on the west wall from the block and at half-height move round onto the south wall - all feels a bit bold.

An interesting start leads to easier ground.

Good route and tricky for the grade.

Another great route up the edge of the overhang.

An even better route than the previous two. Very steep at the top, but the huge bucket holds compensates.

Convoluted and unbalanced route. A bouldery start, then traverse left and finish up what used to be a VDiff trad chimney.

On a vertical face on the left of the East side. Start 2m left of Ladder. Pitch 1: Climb the crack in the steep wall to a ledge and belay (8m). Pitch 2: Climb the slab on the Right up to a ledge Pitch 3: Climb the crack on the left up to the top. walk off from the top from the North side

Start 2m right of Ladder on the rightward rising crack to the ledge. The second 2 pitches are as for Ladder.

5 m right of Ladder on the East Side. Pitch1: The huge diagonal crack going right. Belay on the stance under pitch 2. (30m) VS 4b Pitch 2: Climb the small overhang using broken rocks (secure with a BD3 Camelot) into a small stance and then go left on the vertical wall (secure the exit from the stance with a nut). (10m) HVS 5a

Start around to the left. Can be done also in 2 pitches 15m and 15m

Greatly varied 6a. It will get you all warm inside.

Tricky on top.

This route is located on the right of a bolted route. Follow the obvious crack (which becomes off width is some locations) all the way to the belay station of the sport route.

Need the ladder to start.

Can start on a ladder or by standing or by sit starting following the crack that changes the grade upwards quite a bit. A classic