Route Number: 2158

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Emmigrants Eyes

Location: Poisoned Glen (Ballaghageeha Buttress)
Grade: HVS 5a
Length: 36m

First ascent: G. Murray and M. McNaught June 1992

Route Description:

Start 5M right of Diagonal at little black V and obvious flakes.1) 16M Climb up on large flat holds, move left into groove. Up grooves to grass sod and ledge. Step 2M right and mantleshelf onto ledge. Move left to belay.2) 20M Traverse right along ledge, move up and using holds on the right to obvious groove. Climb groove moving slightly right and then follow quartz groove to belay.(Copied verbatim from Rock Climber Magazine April 1994.)

Comments

Peter Cooper - 10/08/2010
Found this in the above magazine, how it was missed from the last guide who knows? They will need to be assessed (at the crag)against the other routes covering similar territory and grades, to see how independant the latter routes are.