Route Number: 510

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Location: Lough Belshade (Belshade Buttress)
Grade: HVS  5a
Length: 82m
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.
  1. 17m As for Byzantium.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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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