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southern china limestone 2-Mar-2005 At 1:41:14 PM francesca

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A bunch of us went up to Jiulong, about two hours north of Guangzhou (or 3 from Hong Kong) on the
weekend. It's like Yangshou but much closer and besides a couple of trips up in recent weeks and very
occasional bits of old gear or bolts it's pretty much unknown and unclimbed. But it's a couple of hundred
limestone towers sitting in farmers' fields with everything from short overhung sport routes to long multi-
pitch trad routes.

I wrote about it on my website,
supernaut, and we're off there
again this weekend. There's a small but active climbing
scene in Guangdong provence (and a big one in Hong Kong). Also we're spending a week up there at the
start of May. Hundreds of new routes, cheap and good hotels and food, no tourists and a spit away from
the big cities.