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On Bended Knees                    45m   16

The upper wall of Flange Buttress. An alternative finish to Fiddlesticks or Bert’s Fear.

From the Brown Madonna rap station, at the top of Fiddlesticks, climb L and up the broken slabs and corner, as for Bert’s Fear, to a hand crack splitting the steepening wall,Bert’s Fear heads R here into the corner-chimney line.

Jam up the hand crack and when it runs out traverse L to the finger crack just R of the nose. Up the finger crack to a large ledge and surmount the piled blocks to another ledge.

Traverse up and right for 3m across the chimney to two U bolts beckoning an abseil. (Top access to Pleasant Screams).

For the true direttissimo, however, climb through the bushes, through and over more blocks a further 10m to the top of the Column. Reverse back down to the bolts to abseil.

P. Robinson, T. McKenny, 10/2/12