85m, 2 pitches. A variation on Shadow Buttress A. From the top of the crux pitch of Shadow Buttress A head to the right of the main line up a short chimney and over several technical mantels, crossing Moonshadow and rejoining Shadow Buttress A after 2 pitches. The first ascensionists took in a pitch of Vortex (offwidth crack slab left of Shadow Buttress A crux, V 6 as a turfy mixed pitch).

Freddie Hunter, Tim Gray, Chris Acheson 01/Jan/2024.

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Shadow Buttress A

Grade: IV 5 ***
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