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162m, 5 pitches.

Rockfax Description
(The High Priest) An indifferent start leads to superb climbing on the black dyke that splits the sheets of white granite below the Big Roof. Start below the left-hand end of the Big Roof at the base of a crack system that runs up the face at an open groove. This is 20m right of the tall right-facing corner that is the start of Korstorget.
1) N6-, 45m. Bridge the groove (hard at the start) and continue for 20m. Now traverse awkwardly right across a short face and follow more cracks up leftwards to a high belay ledge.
2) N5, 42m. Follow a left-facing chimney, or the more solid and easier cracks to the left, then continue up cracks to a small stance (awkward belays) below the wide basalt overhang. It is worth considering belaying a little lower down (no real stance) and using the higher gear as runners to protect the next section.
3) N6, 30m. Either climb directly through the overhang (bold though good holds soon arrive), or traverse left to a grass ledge (same grade - different style) before moving back right into the basalt dike. Continue up this by lovely climbing to a good ledge.
4) N5-, 45m. Continue up the basalt ladder which gives steady climbing (with spaced protection), in an amazing setting, to a stance just below the big grass ledge of Storhylla.
5) N3-, 60m. Traverse right along Storhylla, (don't forget the protection) around a rib then across a slab, before descending to the fixed anchor at the top of the starting pitches of Vestpillaren Direct. Four abseils lead back to the ground. © Rockfax

Bengt Nilsfors, Aart Verhage May/1992.

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