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Kyrie Eleison*** A1

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[Kyrie Eleison - Thor's Cave on horrible old in-situ gear. 6 am, with hangovers - Joe Simpson Leading, 2 kb]60m. The longest roof climb in the Peak and a fun introduction to aid climbing as it is fully bolted. From the back right corner of the cave, climb into a niche then follow the fixed gear across the undulating roof, even downhill in places until Thormen's is joined. Lower off at the lip. Great wet weather sport. Be aware that if you let your belay ropes dangle to the floor of the cave, people will walk all over them. can be done in a couple of hours. FFA. Dream on! © ROCKFAX
FA. Bob Dearman, K Bridges, Bob Toogood 1972. The first ascent was spread over three days though with all the gear in place the route can be done in a couple of hours. FFA. Dream on!

Photo: Kyrie Eleison - Thor's Cave on horrible old in-situ gear. 6 am, with hangovers - Joe Simpson Leading © co1ps
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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS
This climb is in 42 logbooks, and on 19 wishlists.

esther - Lead - Aug/12

Jim Slater - AltLd - 01/Jan/12 with Trev Wilson

Hidden - 07/Nov/11

Good company. Good mucky messing, Two pitches and lots of spectators; and a dog.
NeilGriffiths - Lead - 28/Oct/11 with Dom, Adam

quality day out. Swinging around with plenty of spectators. Bonus fininshed before it was dark! Found that there were 2 big reaches to retrive gear, wish I had a sky hook for them. completed in 6hrs ish brilliant
A Crook - 2nd O/S - 28/Oct/11 with Dom Stockton, Neil Griffiths

Hidden - 2nd dog - 17/Sep/11

Good banter. Gear is sound as you like, none of the bolts blew! Best served with a Bombay Bad Boy Pot noodle!
tskelhon - AltLd O/S - 05/Sep/11 with John_Warner

Tamati - 12/Jun/11

First aid climb, found it pretty physical although it got easier as I got going. The other pair finished at 11pm!
Jonathan Hall - Lead - 11/Jun/11 with Jane Rigby

This Aid climbing malarky is knackering. It took us hours and we finally finished in the dark at 11pm. Interesting experience to say the least.
disturbed_one51 - AltLd - 11/Jun/11 with Will Ward

JRigby - AltLd - Jun/11

andrusht84 - 07/May/11 with gary binns

rikbattye - Lead dnf - 23/Oct/10

ACE :D Though bit of a epic to say the least, getting lost mid roof and then reverse aiding back to do the exact correct line in the centre of the roof and then finishing way after dark, but a good experience on a wet day!
Graeme Hammond - Lead - 20/Mar/10 with Andy Winter

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 20/Mar/10

Hidden - 2nd dnf - 16/Jan/10

Hidden - 2010

Hidden - Lead - 2010

howlingbaboon - Solo RP - 28/Nov/09

Spent 10 hours on this route, what an epic!
Harry Thorpe - 2nd dnf - 23/Jul/09 with Phil, Em

Got to the first ab point and bailed - my abs were pumped! Great fun on a wet day, hilarious random guys turned up, skinned up and played tuns in. Boney M, The Specials and The Doors....
bridget143 - Lead dnf - 16/May/09 with Mike Pike

Hidden - Lead O/S - 08/Mar/09

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 25/Jun/08

Somerset swede basher - Lead O/S - 25/Jun/08 with Dan Wicks

Awesome route, first climbing aid route!
riddle - Lead O/S - 15/Jun/08

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 17/Dec/07


general - 12/Aug/07 with Rampant

feilx - 2005 with Ian Lovatt

Exhausting
rogerskews - 2nd - 2002 with Steve Walker

with a back rope
frost - Solo - Oct/97

Stoney Boy - AltLd - Jan/97 with Bob Marks

Hidden - AltLd - 06/Nov/96

Very old bolts!
phardman - AltLd - 23/Mar/96 with Mark Incles

nai - Lead - 1992

andrew300169 - Lead O/S - 1992 with Pom

Ian McNeill - 1991

Hidden - AltLd - 17/Feb/90

mark-abz - 2nd - 26/Dec/86 with Andy W

shark - 2nd - Mar/85 with Phill Dickens

Not A1 in 1985! At least A3 because of the poor condition of the gear.
Ghastly Rubberfeet - Lead - 1985

Mark Kemball - Lead - 26/Nov/83 with Martin Askey

L,2.
charlesmfrench - AltLd O/S - 03/Sep/83

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Voting
Total votes cast 13
hard A20 of 5
A20 of 5
easy A20 of 5
hard A14 of 5
A11 of 5
easy A10 of 5
3 Stars8 of 8
2 Stars0 of 8
1 Star0 of 8
0 Stars0 of 8
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Style of ascent

Soloed2 of 42 (4.8%)
Lead14 of 42 (33.3%)
Followed9 of 42 (21.4%)
Alt Leads10 of 42 (23.8%)
Unknown7 of 42 (16.7%)

'Climbed'26 of 42 (61.9%)
clean O/S10 of 42 (23.8%)
clean RP1 of 42 (2.4%)
dogged1 of 42 (2.4%)
dnf4 of 42 (9.5%)