Lifebuoy Buttress

Lifebuoy Buttress
Rock Type	Quarried Carboniferous Limestone
Climbing Style	Trad/Sport
Approach Time
Area	Gower
Sub Area	Rhossili
Local Area	Rhossili Upper Crags
Geodata
WGS-84 Location	51.566113, -4.301817
OS Grid Ref.	SS 405 877
WGS-84 Parking Location	51.569301, -4.28840
GR Parking Location	SS 415 880
Parking Postcode	SA3 1PP
Base Elevation	10 metres (Other)
General Info
Faces Direction	West
Aspect	Partially Sunny
Wind Sheltered	Seldomly
Climbing Type	Normal
Seepage	Quick drying
Crags Within a Half Mile.
Black Buttress, Black Wall, Calcite Bay, Carbon Slab, Castaway Cove, Evening Wall, Fat Lady Wall, Keel Buttress, Kitchen Corner, Lifebuoy Buttress, Mermaid Wall, Platform Area, Poser Buttress, Retribution Wall, Seamen Wall, Sheepbone Wall, Shipwreck Cove, Silent Fright Buttress, Silent Walls, Sinister Sister Zawn, Sinners Walls, Tears Point, Trial Wall, Wedge Wall, Windy Buttress

Tidal Status

non-tidal.

The Routes

Lifebuoy Buttress

1. The Axe 14m E1,5a
   The left hand arête.
   
   
2. Blockbuster 14m Fr 5+.
   The wall 3m right of The Axe. Climb from ledge to ledge parallel with the arête, finishing up a short scoop. PRs missing.
   
   
3. Hatchet Man Fr. 6b+
   The wall, direct, left of the stepped corner.
   
   
4. Pulpit 14m HVS,5a
   Not a route to preach about! Climb a stepped corner 9m right of Blockbuster to a pulpit, move left and up a smooth curving crack for 1m then left and up a wall into a scoop to the top.
   
   
5. Crunch 24m VS,4c
   Some 6m right of Pulpit is a corner with a grassy ledge. Climb this and the central crack in the upper buttress.
   
   

First Ascents

1. The Axe - T.Penning, A.Sharp & J.Harwood 26.05.1985
2. Blockbuster - N.Williams & P.Williams 00.00.1978
3. Hatchet Man - R.Thomas & Ed Rees 00.05.2011
4. Pulpit - N.Williams & P.Williams 00.00.1978
   G.Evans & J.Bullock Direct 00.00.1982
5. Crunch - A.Tyas, J.Pratt, G.Evans 00.00.1981