Andromeda, FA Dave Cheesmond and Ian Howell
Andromeda, E3, 175m, **, Dave Cheesmond and Ian Howell, 1975. After a devious bit of route finding and some hard climbing the pair reached the final band of rotten rock. Dave Cheesmond climbed it to the strains of "Knights in White Satin". Henry Barber made an ascent of it several years later and was visibly shaken. His chalk marks on the rock gave away part of the problem - he took the wrong route and had to reverse climb some of the rotten section. Do not follow the chalk marks! |
