Seventh Dread

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Although a linking pitch, this inventive section of climbing allows the magnificent lower section of Moonraker to be connected to the wild headwall of Dreadnought. Start at the top of pitch 1 of Moonraker..
1) 5b, 24m. Climb the corner above the stance to its top (as for Moonraker). Move right into a wide crack/chimney, exit this right and move down to a ledge. From the right-hand end of the ledge climb steeply to another good ledge. Finish as for Dreadnought.
FA. Frank Cannings, Pat Littlejohn, Pete Biven 5.4.1969 (as part of the girdle traverse The Seventh Circle.