25m. A figured-shaped mini-sentinal on Tryfan's west face, namely Its Wrinkled Tower. The climb is located on an inward-facing wall and clean curving arete at the most pronounced point of the tower. The Easiest approach is to follow the approach for the Wrinkled tower and follow the gully to the right for ~100m until the figure becomes obvious.
A beautiful line but a very bold lead - a serious chance of severe injury if one messes up due to the lack of protection during the crux and insecure sections.

Start scrambling up bushy but easy rocks until a big ledge is reached at 10m with a large crack on the right. Place large pro and burn up diagonally leftwards following the natural ramp and thin pockets to reach the apex of the arete - a truly dangerous but pleasurable layback up this to reach relief at a mini scoop and important protection, before moving up to be stood below the roof. Make committing and technical moves out rightwards back onto the face to move up to the thin break (pro) and then roll over leftwards via a good jug to top out in an insane and precarious position. Take that in.

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J S Hadley 06/Sep/2023.

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