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Grand Alliance*** E4 6a

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[Grand Alliance (E4 6a), Black Crag, Borrowdale, 2 kb]No description has been contributed for this climb.

Ticklists: Extreme Rock, Great Wall Climbs of the UK, Very good routes in the UK.

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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS
This climb is in 81 logbooks, and on 13 wishlists.

captain - 2013

bigpapparen - 2nd - Sep/12 with simon smith

2nd 3rd pitches
C coldwell-storry - Lead O/S - 08/Aug/12 with Sally Weatley

Lead crux pitch. A very good route
david morse - AltLd O/S - 02/Jun/12 with melonmike

melonmike - 2nd - 02/Jun/12 with Dave Morse

Adam Booth - AltLd O/S - 01/Jun/12 with Ed Booth

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 01/Jun/12

Jack Loftus - AltLd dog - 22/May/12 with Nick

Hidden - AltLd rpt - 22/May/12

pmurdy - AltLd O/S - 05/May/12 with Mike W

mwatson - Lead O/S - 05/May/12

Stone Idol - 2012

north country boy - AltLd - 28/Aug/11 with Chris Everett

P2 only - really nice sequence after the peg.
JRae - 2nd - 16/Apr/11 with Tom Dixon, A Saul

Lead 2nd & 3rd pitch. 2nd very nice bold moves on the slab, 3rd traverse was wicked but sadly had a fall from the top crux, fell badly and couldn't finish it. Good up til then!
thomasadixon - Lead dnf - 16/Apr/11 with Johnny, Alan

esther - 2nd - Apr/11

Hidden - 2011

Jack Geldard - UKC Chief Editor - 2011

Steve Crowe - 2011

Dave Parton - 2011

GeoffG - 2011

phil64 - 2011

2nd and 3rd
barni - AltLd O/S - 18/May/10 with Sam

lobbed 30ft from top of crux. Sideways rock 5 at undercuts held it. Landed at the thin traverse with a bust ankle. Considerably bolder than I was expecting!
John Kettle - Lead dnf - 23/Apr/10

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 22/Apr/10

Hidden - AltLd dog - 22/Apr/10

Hidden - 2010

Christopher Roberts - 2nd - 2010

westaway - Lead O/S - 16/Sep/09

dannyboy83 - Lead O/S - 02/Jun/09 with Shane

datoon - AltLd O/S - 05/Apr/09 with K

khawk - AltLd - 05/Apr/09 with DT

Seymore Butt - 2009

akhughes - AltLd O/S - Aug/08 with matt franks

lead first two pitches together, climbed too the small undercuts on crux pitch, queue agonizing boot saga.
Alex Mason - Lead dnf - 15/May/08 with andy gravestock

sadams - 2nd - 11/May/08 with Eric Hildrew

Hidden - AltLd - 02/Jun/07

Hidden - AltLd O/S - 02/Jun/07

Pete Graham - Lead O/S - 2007 with Rick Graham

Toby Dunn - 2007

middlevern - AltLd - Jul/06 with Toby Dunn

dominic lee - Lead O/S - 10/Jun/06 with daniel lee

Bern - 2006

jeffmcd56 - Lead β - 2006 with Adam

Hidden - Lead O/S - 2005

Hidden - Lead O/S - 17/Aug/03

whispering nic - Lead O/S - Jun/00 with malc davies

Hidden - AltLd - May/99

Hidden - Lead - 1997

Glenn Sutcliffe - 1995 with keefe

Bulls Crack - Lead O/S - 1995 with AM

Roget - Lead O/S - 28/May/94 with colin

a fine route
Dave Musgrove Jnr - AltLd - 16/Apr/94 with Nick Ashton

Tom Briggs - Jagged Globe - 1993

Hidden - Lead - 17/Sep/91

Hidden - Lead - 26/Jul/90

Dave Rumney - AltLd - 16/Jun/90

Hidden - 1990

andy gittins - Lead - 1990 with M Dawes

Colin led the 6a pitch. Fantastic route - the holds are small, but there all there, at a stretch! Great lead by Colin.
allan white - AltLd - 20/Jun/89 with Colin Murley

Rich Kirby - AltLd O/S - 09/Aug/88 with The General (P.Henderson)

1st Lakes E4 (although an E3 in the guide at the time).
Dave Musgrove - AltLd - 28/Jun/88 with Frank Wilkinson

Hidden - Lead - 13/Jun/88

Hidden - 2nd rpt - 07/May/88

William Robertson - Lead O/S - 1987 with Emily, Steve, Shaun etc

Hidden - AltLd dnf - 28/Sep/86

keefe - 19/Aug/86 with Tony King

Hidden - Lead - 07/Jun/86

Awesome climbing! Got to the undercut's, spotted what looked to be a reasonable hold and went for it,turned out to be poor and my confidence nosedived, climbed back down to the undercut's only for Andy to tell me I had reversed the crux! Lead back up to the top feeling rather stupid.
Paula Hamilton-Gibson - AltLd O/S - Jun/86 with Andy Hyslop

climbed on at least two occasions after an initial attempt when I backed off crux
David Smith - AltLd - 1986

Hidden - Lead O/S - May/84

Did the whole route (I led pitches 1 & 2 together) in 45 minutes including the abseil back to our sacks.
Bob - AltLd O/S - 24/May/82 with E. Cleasby

Hidden - Lead - 1982

Hidden - Lead β - Jul/81

Mike Owen - 08/Jun/80 with Elaine Watson

Hidden - Lead dnf - Jun/80

Great route. Great weekend.
KRB - Lead O/S - 24/May/80 with Mike Bridges

i led the 4c & 5b pitches and Kev did the hard work on the 6a pitch! All I remember is that Kev took forever on the top slab and I kept thinking he`d come flying off down over the overhang and that he kept saying his gear wasn`t the best,and it was a bit of a run out! and that i was freezing on the belay and could hardly feel my fingers and that traverse under the overhangs looked desperate and Kev had hardly put any gear in it! He didn`t come off of course,and I made the traverse with numb hands and found the top slab desperate but 2nded clean,and was very proud of Kev`s lead.
mike bridges - AltLd O/S - 24/May/80 with Kevin Bridges

redjerry - Lead O/S - May/80 with Jim Melrose

robinsi197 - 1980 with Barbara

Hidden - 1973

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Voting
Total votes cast 57
hard E50 of 17
E50 of 17
easy E50 of 17
hard E41 of 17
E45 of 17
easy E411 of 17
hard E30 of 17
E30 of 17
easy E30 of 17
hard 6b0 of 20
6b0 of 20
easy 6b0 of 20
hard 6a0 of 20
6a18 of 20
easy 6a2 of 20
hard 5c0 of 20
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Style of ascent

Lead28 of 81 (34.6%)
Followed7 of 81 (8.6%)
Alt Leads27 of 81 (33.3%)
Unknown19 of 81 (23.5%)

'Climbed'42 of 81 (51.9%)
clean O/S28 of 81 (34.6%)
clean β2 of 81 (2.5%)
clean rpt2 of 81 (2.5%)
dogged2 of 81 (2.5%)
dnf5 of 81 (6.2%)