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8 minsThe Upper Tier has been peppered with routes of variable quality. The grades tend to be on the friendly side but the rock quality is sometimes dubious so take care. The further left you go, the less popular the routes become. Guidebook page 88.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
1 |
Elizabethville The left-hand end of the wall. | 6a | |
2 |
Burundi The thin crack is tricky. | Technical | 6b |
3 |
Townships Short-lived desperate moves up the face. | Technical | 6c+ |
4 |
Victoria Falls The crack-line and edge then trend right. | 6b | |
5 |
Kariba A thin crack with a steep start. | 6a+ | |
6 |
Zanzibar Start up Kariba, but move right. | 6b | |
7 |
Simonstone The last route on the slab is thin. | 1 Stars | 6c+ |
8 |
Ring Thane The upper arete above the left end of the ledge. | 6c+ | |
9 |
Pretoria Climb past the overlap to the wall just right of the arete. | Crimpy | 6b+ |
10 |
Mombassa Climb around the big flake to gain the upper corner. | 1 Stars | 6a |
11 |
Greenpeace The centre of the upper slab is a bit too narrow. | 6a | |
12 |
Brew Thyme This is the crack-line just right of the far left arete. | 6a | |
13 |
Thyme Out Up the wide crack splitting the left side of a block overhang. | 6a | |
14 |
What's the Thyme The bolted crack just left of the open corner. | 6a | |
15 |
Bridge Over the River Thyme Amble up the corner line with a brown right wall. | 5 | |
16 |
Bit of Spare Thyme The wall right of the brown corner encroaches on the arete. | 5+ | |
17 |
Fat Betty The easy corner line has a white left wall. | 4+ | |
18 |
Take Your Thyme Meander up the right wall of the corner. | 5+ | |
19 |
Porridge The grooved arete is nice enough. | 1 Stars | 4+ |
20 |
Crunch yer Nuts Another easier groove system. | 1 Stars | 4 |
21 |
The Soggy Up the blunt arete with a tricky move or two. | Technical | 6b |
22 |
Man of Constant Sorrow The left-hand side of the next arete via a crack low down. | 5+ | |
23 |
Big Rock Candy Mountain Climb the slab and wall just right of the arete. | 6a | |
24 |
Everett's Arete The sharp hanging arete on its left-hand side. Hard. | 5+ | |
25 |
Repulse The dirty left-hand line up the excavated brown streak. | 5 | |
26 |
Prince of Wales The right-hand line is grubby too. | 5+ | |
27 |
That Old DA Look A short wall leads to a groove with a tricky bulge. | 4 | |
28 |
FOP The stapled pillar just to the right has some decent moves. 1 user comment | 6a | |