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Clayton getting started on pitch 3 with Brian and Karsten in the background |
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Me hauling from the top of 2. The water drop are dripping off the upper wall but I'm not getting wet. |
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Me leading the first pitch |
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The promised land beckons |
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Made it! |
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Ryan making the last moves on the final pitch |
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leading the final pitch |
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Ryan stops for a picture while approaching the top of the 15th |
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Scott at the top of the 14th pitch |
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Peanut ledge bivi |
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My haul line (white rope) getting clipped into one of the only pieces of gear on the pitch!! |
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rapping back down to Peanut ledge |
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How close I got to the belay before running out of rope |
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leading the 12th pitch (this must have been taken a few minutes after the one I took above)
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The view down from pitch 12 |
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One of the best rappels on the route over the Mark of Zorro |
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Cleaning the nipple pitch
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You can really tell how steep the wall is by the distance of the bags from the wall, this is on the nipple pitch. |
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A view of the famous nipple from below |
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a little damage to the rope |
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rope burn on my fingers |
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Attempting to east canned chilli with a cahook (not recommended). |
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looking up at the lines fixed on pitches 5 and 6 |
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me cleaning the third pitch
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lowering out the bags on one of the traversing pitches low on Zodiac |
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