Day 34 Near Esfahan

Cook duty: have to prepare breakfast for fifteen; revoluted eggs and bread. Lots of truck activity (fixing things up etc) - but I don't want to get involved. I've made a curry for this evening: it can cook slowly on the remains of the fire during the day - a sneaky plan to allow me to get some climbing in. All I need do is cook some rice this evening. Certain people will whinge if they get supper late - but I am here to climb first and foremost. At 1 pm Lianna will allow Simon and I to climb - until then we are on truck security - a bit daft since there are six or seven others just messing about all day on the truck anyhow. So few people have people skills, despite being people? She also had the audacity to complain that the supper was a 'bit late last night' - well, perhaps she could cook every now and then!

It's certainly an impressive cliff - a bit under 200 metres high - takes three abseils to get off (down the centre of the face). What's really nice is that there are a number of really obvious lines. The routes are typically four pitches. Camping about 200 metres from the cliff - in a desert - rocky type place. Have my eye on the route to the right. Not too hot here - it's dry with a reasonable breeze from time to time. [Yesterday's route is the left hand route shown above.] Climbed the route on the right hand side of the crag. It's called Hamedanian, graded at 5.10b/c. The top pitch was fantastic - straight up a fairly steep wall, even overhanging in parts - fingery but good holds. Four pitches in total, I'd say 5a 5b 5b 5c+. Good chimney on pitch two.