Yeah we know you are supposed to use screwgates on belays but would it make any difference?

Yikes! I take no-one fell on that Pete?

there are about 6 other poor pegs tho, and all clipped together isnt that bad, i'm not too sure if your right picture is a bosh or not, have you actually clipped a piece of rock, wouldnt the leverage break it??? whats wrong with threading a sling.

Yeah Centurian it would be daft to clip the fragile rock direct with a krab and think it would be realistic protection -- we were getting hysterical though. I don't recall 6 pegs -- I think a headless one was clove hitched. Sue reckons the most important part of the belay was digging her heels in :-) No-one fell on the belay but I was a whisker away -- I don't do fragile and pumpy climbing very well.

there is a good spike you can sling for the belay - infact it is only the spike that makes it a belay!

I think this belay is now dangerous - there is only one peg that looks like it might possibly hold. A bit higher up, outside the photo, there is a ring peg where the ring is no longer attached to the peg as is just free hanging on the stub! There is indeed a spike a bit higher up, but would you trust it? Better to skip the belay and carry on to the top, which is what we did.

Worth a 5* for the memories it re-calls.