Essentially a rising partial-circumnavigation of the foot of the stack, anticlockwise, starting low on the north face, and rising around the west arete to join the Out of the Deep/Original corner cracks at mid-height.
FA landed by boat at the foot of the north face, then a "difficult traverse" rightward to the foot of the west arete.
"We identified a weakness on the northern side of the (west arete), a crack and corner system"
"The corner was then ascended to mid-height on the stack - at which point the bow began to seriously overhang. These difficulties were avoided by a traverse across the South Face to a junction with the corner cracks on the South-East Arete "
Mid-height is probably the third-height break - at this point the stack overhangs above, and in 2016, a rightward traverse onto the south face seemed very logical.
http://climbers-club.co.uk/journal/original/1998%20Journal-p116-124.pdf
FA landed by boat at the foot of the north face, then a "difficult traverse" rightward to the foot of the west arete.
"We identified a weakness on the northern side of the (west arete), a crack and corner system"
"The corner was then ascended to mid-height on the stack - at which point the bow began to seriously overhang. These difficulties were avoided by a traverse across the South Face to a junction with the corner cracks on the South-East Arete "
Mid-height is probably the third-height break - at this point the stack overhangs above, and in 2016, a rightward traverse onto the south face seemed very logical.
http://climbers-club.co.uk/journal/original/1998%20Journal-p116-124.pdf
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Variety Show
Grade: HVS 5a ***
(Yesnaby)