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Top ten very exposed climbs - give me your list 8-Jul-2009 At 1:19:43 PM ithomas

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You're right Neil, that pitch is 17. I've done the climb a couple of times. Once with Keith Bell (on the first
ascent) where he sucked me into doing the roof pitch. Once around the roof, I had only a Chouinard 7 or
8 stopper with which to belay. Luckily it was a beauty. I almost kissed it in relief. The second time on the
climb was with Greg Mortimer. He led the roof and I slipped on the 2nd or third moves off the belay just
around the roof. I fell onto Greg and ended up with most of my body dangling just below the lip. Oh how I
laughed. I hauled myself back up onto the belay only to find that I had kicked Greg in the gob as I sailed
past and that the karabiner that held our single rope into Greg's sticht plate was somehow jammed open
with my end of the rope. I looked at the drop beneath my feet and stopped laughing at that point.