Rockfax Description
Exciting climbing spiralling up the needle. Start below a crack on the south face reached via scrambling up and down The Gap.
1) 4b, 20m. Move up the slab right of the crack to a ledge. Climb the crack on the left and the slab above to the shoulder and belay.
2) 4b, 8m. Traverse all the way round to the arete above The Gap and nip up it to the summit.
Descent - See opposite. © Rockfax
UKC Logbook Description
A brilliant top pitch. Pass through the gap behind the Needle to reach an obvious crack on the side of the Needle facing Lingmell.
1.) 18m (4b), climb the steep slab right of the crack on small holds to the Platform, then a large flake, followed by a slab, to the shoulder.
2.) 6m (4b), hand traverse right, along the horizontal crack under the top block (and over the Gap) to gain its northwest arete (opposite Needle Ridge). Finish with steep moves up the arete on good holds.
SW Herford and W. Brunskill Aug/1912.
Siegfried Herford’s First Ascents
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Grade: VS 4c ***
(Scafell Crag)