Access Banned
No longer possible to access sillery sands via the 'zig zag' path because of rock fall/ path collapse. You'll probably need a boat to get here!
60m.
Mentioned in High magazine 210, May 2020.
"The biggest climbing crag is the Wall of the Sleeping Dead, a 60m leaning thing, diagonally slashed with variegated species of orange, red and green sandstones that becomes kaleidoscopic in the sun. I named it that because while I was on an abseil rope, my companion, Jim Woolmington, fell into a deep sleep prostrate on a slab of rock just above the sea. A passing fishing boat must have mistaken him for dead since an RNLI chopper was called out and made all of four fly-pasts before Jim awoke and convinced his rescuers by means of body language that he was not, in fact, dead. The crag now harbours three eye-bulging beasts of E5 or E6 standard set to test the mettle and stamina of those endeavouring to solve their complex geometry.
"The biggest climbing crag is the Wall of the Sleeping Dead, a 60m leaning thing, diagonally slashed with variegated species of orange, red and green sandstones that becomes kaleidoscopic in the sun. I named it that because while I was on an abseil rope, my companion, Jim Woolmington, fell into a deep sleep prostrate on a slab of rock just above the sea. A passing fishing boat must have mistaken him for dead since an RNLI chopper was called out and made all of four fly-pasts before Jim awoke and convinced his rescuers by means of body language that he was not, in fact, dead. The crag now harbours three eye-bulging beasts of E5 or E6 standard set to test the mettle and stamina of those endeavouring to solve their complex geometry.
Martin Crocker 1997.
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