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Coolest features to climb in Australia 27-Sep-2019 At 3:08:35 PM E. Wells

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The start was fine because I know from following contemporary guides doing Neruda that they are all wrong. Getting sucked into hours of bullshit because noone writes 'left of nose' is a right of passage. My friend who lives out there has a very old route description that indeed says left of nose , but since then a simple error has been copied over and over. And I am definately buying Tim Hasnoot a case of beer for that belay. I approached it via some grade 24 climbing between Ginsberg and Aladinsane and was absolutely blowing chunks to free it. Once again the guide said loose steep corner in orange rock.....its not a corner , but god I wish I had taken it , within 10m I knew I had given myself unnecessary challenges. Good early finish though and back to Ogma saddle with lots of day light to spare. My fav so far on Bluff has been Ulysses , its somethin else.