Route Number: 430

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Cobra Cracks

Location: Poisoned Glen (Last Small Buttress).
Grade: HS  4b
Length: 38m
First ascent: S Rothery, F Winder (29/3/59)
Route Description:

Start: The line to the left of the red wall, going up chimneys and cracks to under the prominent overhang.

  1. 21 m Move up to the base of a steep narrow chimney formed by a detached block. Climb the chimney strenuously and then continue up the next steep crack and out onto a large grass ledge by steep vegetation.
  2. 21 m Move up to the base of a steep narrow chimney and climb it until it becomes possible to straddle across to a narrow ledge from which an awkward mantleshelf is made to the next step. The short chimney to the left of the overhang is climbed to a large ledge.
  3. 5m A wall, with difficult mantleshelf, leads to the top.

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