50m. A technical and bold climb, could be considered E5 due to the suspect nature of the rock and lack of bomber protection. Due to the lack of rescue on St Kilda the route should be taken seriously, the climbing is never too hard, but lacks a solid line of retreat. Get it wrong and you will need two gold coins.

A technical and bold climb, possibly E5 due to suspect rock and poor protection. Climbs the two steep black slabs to the right of the main Ruaival Slabs. Start on a large vegetated ledge below the full height left slab. Climb the slab direct for 20m until possible to step right on grass to the base of the steeper darker second slab. Arrange poor brass offsets, then climb the centre of the slab trending slightly left to a small recess of micro blocks. Continue trending leftwards to join a small foot ledge between the right and left slabs. Step left and down onto the left slab. Traverse left across the slab to the arête, then climb it to top-out in a loose gully. Belay on the large boulder as for The Last and Outmaist Ile. Scramble out 50m.

FA. S.Tolhurst, S.Van Dijck, B.Harrison 03/Jun/2018.

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