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[Rik Meek on 1st ascent of Blood and Sand (E3 5c) 1988, 3 kb]17m. Technical face-climbing up the appealing wall with a flowstone sheet at its base. Start at the short flowstone-wall. 18m. Climb to a block and move right and up to a small ledge. Step left and climb to the top. © ROCKFAX
Start about 2 metres right of the arete at the amazing flowstone feature. Climb up left of this to the detached looking block and then traverse right for about 1.5m to a crack. Move up to two slots one above the other and then step left and up to the ledge. Step slightly left again and climb up past shallow pockets to a flat hold and pull up onto this and then easily to the top.
Pat Littlejohn, John Fowler & Frank Cannings 13/Apr/1969

Ticklists: Littlejohn South West Climbs, West Country Climbs.

Photo: Rik Meek on 1st ascent of Blood and Sand (E3 5c) 1988 © Rik Meek collection
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This climb is in 48 logbooks, and on 3 wishlists.

Flat hold was wet at the top which made the move a little more interesting!
Mr Tickle - Lead rpt - 09/Feb/13 with Will

Main holds soaking.
Will Cat - 2nd O/S - 09/Feb/13 with Luke

What a great climb to finish a great day.
Popkids - TR O/S - 02/Feb/13 with Pete Saunders

wolverine - Lead O/S - 14/Oct/12 with Thunderthighsontheloose

Thunderthighsontheloose - 14/Oct/12 with Mike Hayes

Such a great climb.
andy_pemberton - Lead - 30/Sep/12 with Dan Lear

Hidden - Lead O/S - 17/Sep/12

Nick Russell - 2nd O/S - 08/Sep/12 with Ross

Hidden - Lead O/S - 08/Sep/12

Dave Rumney - Lead - 02/Sep/12 with Tanya Milner

pete3685 - Lead O/S - 04/Jul/12

timreynolds - 2nd - 13/Jun/12

Lyndsay Superclimber - 2nd O/S - 13/Jun/12 with Mark S

mark schramm - Lead O/S - 13/Jun/12 with Lyndsay, tim

rustaldo - Lead O/S - 06/Apr/12 with Alex

Pete Graham - Lead - 24/Feb/12 with Ian Burton, Ben Silvestre

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 18/Feb/12

Duncan Turner - Lead O/S - 18/Feb/12 with stu

Marti999 - Lead O/S - 04/Sep/11 with Mick Ward

Cool route.
catt - 2nd O/S - 27/Aug/11 with Hardin

Hidden - Lead O/S - 09/Aug/11

martin clarke - 2nd - 15/May/11 with john frost, steve ashworth

stephen ashworth - 2nd - 15/May/11 with john frost, martin clarke

Hidden - Lead O/S - 14/May/11


JonHarvey - 2nd O/S - 09/May/11 with Jay Jackson

Hidden - Lead O/S - 09/May/11

tobydunford - Lead O/S - 25/Apr/11 with Kirsty Kerr

Good rests before the tricky sections
Rob Laird - Lead O/S - 28/Aug/10 with B Sosin

Tough and pumpy
mr random - 2nd - 28/Aug/10 with Rob Laird-

Another retro-onsight having seconded it with Nick Hancock 2/2/85
Kafoozalem - Lead - 17/Oct/09 with Phil Webber

Good climbing, few tricky moves towards the top.
Phil79 - 2nd O/S - 17/Oct/09 with Pete

Abbed off a jammed in rock
porridgefan - Lead O/S - 19/Aug/09 with Niall Francis

Hidden - 2nd O/S - 19/Aug/09

great climb, nice moves with good protection.
Mr Tickle - Lead O/S - 23/Nov/08 with davenev

davenev - 2nd O/S - 23/Nov/08 with luke

Pretty stiff. Techincal, pumpy moves off the ledge above so-so gear.
richardr - Lead O/S - Jul/08

quadmyre - Lead O/S - 09/Feb/08 with Crispin

ecowaller - Solo - 12/Aug/07 with Paula

Rob Kennard - 2007

Thought I had backed of this in the past as well (ces't la vie)
shark - Solo dnf - 23/Jul/06

chris sm - Lead - Aug/04 with Pippa Froggatt

Excellent.
andy_pemberton - Lead - Jun/01 with Katharine Pemberton

CraigMac1 - Lead O/S - 2000

Tricky!
Rob Oram - 2nd O/S - 11/Jul/99 with Phil Milanes

colin milton - Lead - 08/Aug/95 with eric milton

Mark Kemball - Lead - 13/Aug/93 with Alison Dorey

shark - Solo - 26/Oct/87

shark - Solo O/S - 04/Sep/86

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
pete3685, Alan100, RobSteer999

Voting
Total votes cast 39
hard E20 of 13
E20 of 13
easy E20 of 13
hard E12 of 13
E18 of 13
easy E13 of 13
hard HVS0 of 13
HVS0 of 13
easy HVS0 of 13
hard 5c0 of 13
5c0 of 13
easy 5c0 of 13
hard 5b2 of 13
5b7 of 13
easy 5b3 of 13
hard 5a1 of 13
5a0 of 13
easy 5a0 of 13
3 Stars0 of 13
2 Stars8 of 13
1 Star5 of 13
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Style of ascent

Soloed4 of 48 (8.3%)
Lead27 of 48 (56.2%)
Followed14 of 48 (29.2%)
Toproped1 of 48 (2.1%)
Unknown2 of 48 (4.2%)

'Climbed'16 of 48 (33.3%)
clean O/S30 of 48 (62.5%)
clean rpt1 of 48 (2.1%)
dnf1 of 48 (2.1%)