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Sweatyman** HVS 5a

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[James on Sweatyman Direct, 2 kb]26m. A devious classic with a weird finish. Pull rightwards onto the wall from a recess then climb cracks to a small but good ledge below the upper face (belay recommended here). Pull up to the break then move left to the arete. Move up and left again then crawl through the horizontal slot to an exposed exit on the front face. Told you it was weird. © ROCKFAX
Very soft at the grade, but massively entertaining.

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This climb is in 26 logbooks, and on 4 wishlists.

Epic ledge faff
BenedictIEP - Lead β - 01/May/13 with Vicky Jennings

Plenty of exposure stepping round on to the nose at the top..!!
Mike Hegarty - Lead O/S - 03/Sep/12 with Dave

Just Another Dave - Lead O/S - 12/Aug/12 with Luke Donaldson

First HVS. Great fun and just scary enough. Spent a minute or two on the "man up" ledge. "This is where you look to the left, then the right and then decide to man up" - Haydn. "Go on, treat yourself to a quickdraw" - Haydn.
thedatastream - Lead β - 13/Jun/12 with Haydn

Jame's first proper HVS.
Hardonicus - 2nd rpt - 13/Jun/12 with James Pawson

mikedelderfield - 2nd O/S - 22/May/12 with Steven Delderfield

ste_d - Lead O/S - 22/May/12 with mik

Jim Slater - 2nd O/S - 12/May/12 with Graeme Hammond

Great climbing :)
Graeme Hammond - Lead O/S - 12/May/12 with Jim

vix - Lead rpt - 31/Aug/11 with Lucy, Haydn

Led second pitch
jakelodge - AltLd O/S - 30/Jul/11 with Harry Thorpe

Really good fun, led first pitch
Harry Thorpe - AltLd O/S - 30/Jul/11 with Jake Lodge

Almost got my foot stuck in the initially ledge. + I still hate that second ledge move...
Alex Thompson - 2nd rpt - 27/Jul/11 with Vix

So much fun. Removal of helmet mid traverse, got very wedged.
vix - Lead O/S - 27/Jul/11 with Alex

Hugely exposed and great fun.
Dave Foster - Lead O/S - 19/Jun/10 with Ross

with a CAM rescue
climbing_rocks1983 - 2nd O/S - 16/Jun/10 with Kieran, Petey

How do you reach the break from the ledge? We used combined tactics.
MeMeMe - AltLd O/S - 12/Jun/10 with Andy

First HVS.
grubes - Lead O/S - 28/May/10

Hardonicus - Lead rpt - 28/May/10 with nick a

Hidden - 2nd - 14/May/10

Hidden - Lead O/S - 30/Aug/08

Hardonicus - Lead rpt - 03/May/08

Alex Thompson - 2nd O/S - 19/Apr/07 with Haydn Martin + Jonny Owen

Roget - Solo O/S - 11/Jul/99

And again seconded Dave Fooks 9/9/2012
charlesmfrench - Lead - 12/Sep/81

David Smith - 1975

Users with this climb on their wishlist are:
dangmtb, Graham C, Deezel65, Hidden

Voting
Total votes cast 20
hard E10 of 6
E10 of 6
easy E10 of 6
hard HVS0 of 6
HVS3 of 6
easy HVS1 of 6
hard VS2 of 6
VS0 of 6
easy VS0 of 6
hard 5b0 of 6
5b0 of 6
easy 5b1 of 6
hard 5a0 of 6
5a3 of 6
easy 5a1 of 6
hard 4c1 of 6
4c0 of 6
easy 4c0 of 6
3 Stars6 of 8
2 Stars1 of 8
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Style of ascent

Soloed1 of 26 (3.8%)
Lead14 of 26 (53.8%)
Followed7 of 26 (26.9%)
Alt Leads3 of 26 (11.5%)
Unknown1 of 26 (3.8%)

'Climbed'3 of 26 (11.5%)
clean O/S16 of 26 (61.5%)
clean β2 of 26 (7.7%)
clean rpt5 of 26 (19.2%)