45m. Start from the grassy ledge where all routes on this slab begin. Instead of following The Third World, head rightwards to a new (2023) peg underneath a broken overlap. Take care with fragile rock here. Make a reachy move to get established above it at a horizontal seam. Arrange some gear and make a hard move up to a good hold (possible skyhook in vertical crack) head up and leftwards to the start of the Deceptive Bends traverse (a cam placed at your feet here reduces the grade to E4, 6a). No holds in The Third World are used. Now make thin & sustained crux moves upwards (skyhook in pocket at left hand) to a good downwards triangular foothold joining the crux of Terminal Trajectory. From the peg in TT continue up to also clip the thread. Now follow TT rightwards for 5m until a small left facing corner, arrange some gear and step left (using a layaway hold) then follow a line keeping to the left of the top peg in Deceptive Bends to the top of the crag.

FA used an ab rope to belay at the top, and as an anchor on the belay stance.

Col Kingshott & Cat Baines 07/Aug/2023.

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