For those that know the area, the huge block that you used to chimney up behind at the top of Harlequin has completely detatched and fallen to the base of Sweet Revenge. It appears to have taken part of SR with it and exploded into some huge and some not so huge blocks spread out beween the base of Beamans route and the huge rock some people like to jump off into the sea.  An absolutely humbleing sight, and so lucky no one was down there when it went.  There is now a convenient block at the base of Beamans that makes cliping the first bolt  quite easy, plus there is a 2 bolt route on a block on the ground that must have come from up further.  Hopefully, nothing else detatched, not sure if there was an earth tremor or similar, although the thing that detatches was on quite a sloping ledge.  We took some pics, will try to upload when we get the camera organised.

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  1. Jon Nermut

    How totally nuts. Photos from Eli Robson of the scene:

    You can see some U Bolts in this fallen block - good thing that there's no one attached to them:

    And I though my project at Waterworks was choss!

  2. Claudio Trefny

    Interesting that some friends and myself were sitting on Harlequin ramp and witnessed a single rock (100kg?) fall (all by itself!) from sweet revenge, just where it branches off from crayfish crack and smash into the existing scree at the bottom of the route. This was the weekend of 3-4 December 11 - about three weeks ago. Might have been the beginning of this mayhem. Glad that no one was hurt.

  3. dave james

    how awesome would it have been to be on harlequin watching that baby sail by??

    and if i climb the ubolts now does that pass as a first ascent? hopefully its easier now.

    don't tell parks. they'll do a 'review'...

  4. Mark Savage

    Presumably the rings belong to The Only Fruit? Guess it saves having to do a pitch to get to the start of it...