Poisoned Glen (West Buttress)

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The three earliest routes here follow the three diedre of the West Buttress. To the left of the first (left hand) diedre is a black gully, and left again is a small buttress containing Piglet's Crack.

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At the left hand end of the West Buttress is the first, enormous, diedre; here lies Gollicker.

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The central diedre.

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The next two routes share the same start.Kon Tiki, climbed in 1956, takes a devious line from the base of the right-hand diedre moving leftwards to finish up Nightshade, and involves diagonal abseils and tension traverses. Rah free-climbs the main pitch of Kon Tiki and then follows the obvious groove which Kon Tiki avoids.

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Between the two gullies on the right-hand side of the buttress there are two slabs. This route starts just above the point where the two gullies join, starting with a short chockstone pitch in the left-hand gully.

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This climb takes the RHS of a huge flake, to the right of Serial Slabs and right of the deep gash & gully.

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  KonTiki HVS 5a Edit Route Delete
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  Return of the Eagles HVS 5a Edit Route Delete