Conglomerate Cliff

Conglomerate Cliff
Conglomerate Cliff and Eyeball Wall
Rock Type	Natural Carboniferous Limestone
Climbing Style	Trad
Approach Time	25 minutes
Area	Gower
Sub Area	Rhossili
Local Area	Fall Bay to Mewslade
Geodata
WGS-84 Location	51.561987, -4.285913
OS Grid Ref.	SS 416 872
WGS-84 Parking Location	51.567326, -4.278292
GR Parking Location	SS 421 878
Parking Postcode	SA3 1PH
Base Elevation	1 metres (Other)
General Info
Faces Direction	West
Aspect	Partially Sunny
Wind Sheltered	Mostly
Climbing Type	Serious
Seepage	Quick drying
Crags Within a Half Mile.
Block Buttress, Castaway Cove, Catacomb Gully, Cathedral Wall, Conglomerate Cliff, Devil's Truck Area, Eyeball Wall, Four Gullies, Giant's Cave, Grey Wall, Hairy Dog Wall, Jacky's Tor, King Wall, Lewes Castle, Mewslade Quarry Slab, Mewslade Short Wall, Molar Wall and White Edge, Richards Rock, Rolly Bottom Buttress, Seamen Wall, Shipwreck Cove, Tears Point, Thurba East, Thurba Head, Thurba West, Trident Gully and Ridge, Upper Jacky's Tor, Yellow Wall

Conglomerate Cliff and Eyeball Wall

BOLTING POLICY

No bolting.

PREAMBLE

Opposite Yellow Wall and to the left of Eyeball Wall is a black slab. This must be one of the few cliffs in Britain to be threatened by a conglomerate cornice!

You'll need to find some way of lowering off from the top of these two routes! Pegs?

THE ROUTES

1. Don't Look Up - E3,5c **
   Start just right of an earthy crack on the left side of the slab. Climb to a narrow ledge, move up a steep section, PR, and continue to an abseil point, PB, TB. 22m.
   
   
2. A Shadow Hanging Over Me - E2,5b **
   Start at the right-hand earthy crack. Climb up the crack then step out left onto the slab. Go up a short steep crack until moves over calcite encrustations, 2PR, lead to the steep upper section. Abseil off. 22m.
   
   

First Ascents

1. Don't Look Up - R.Thomas, J.Bullock 00.00.1990
   
2. A Shadow Hanging Over Me - R.Thomas, J.Bullock 00.00.19902