Classical Revival * * * |
Location: Lough Belshade (Belshade Buttress)
Grade: HVS 5a
Length: 82m
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| First ascent: D Stelfox, U MacPherson, I Rea (4/4/81) |
| Route Description: |
HVS, 4c,5a,4c.
This route takes the obvious curving ramp leading up to a large overhang at the left hand side of the face, providing two excellent pitches in a very impressive situation.
Start: as for Byzantium. - 17m As for Byzantium.
- 38m From belay move up to the base of a heather filled corner on the right. Step right onto the arete and airily swing round right onto the wall to gain a good crack. Follow this up to the corner from where diagonal cracks and a narrow ramp lead with increasing difficulty across the smooth open slab. About 5m below the large overhang belay on a small ledge below a good crack.
- 28m Climb the crack above swinging left past the overhang on excellent holds. Continue up the corner crack above. Finish by the arete on the left or the awkward chimney.
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| Comments |
Geoff Thomas - 12/03/2015
Did this in September 2014. A 5 star route. One of the best climbs at the grade that I have done anywhere! I abbed in so didn\'t do the lower pitches and ran the top two together. Fantastic rock. Didn\'t fancy the top chimney - very botanical - but the left exit is a good ledge. |
G. Carleton - 20/09/2014
The lower pitches have become very vegetated, but it's still a good route. |
Joan Flanagan - 02/06/2010
On Sunday 30th May Orla Prendergast and myself climbed this route and found it to be quite clean and a brilliant route. Conditions were perfect, no midges and dry, the whole crag looks great and deserves alot more traffic. We were the only ones there. |
George Carleton - 31/05/2009
A fantastic route, feels exposed on the slab below the overhang, but the gear is good. |
Alan Blair - 02/05/2007
i think the description should read climb the first two pitches of byzantium |
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