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Lisu Area Rock Climbing

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Areas in Lisu Area

Painted Wall, The 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1

Pillars area 24 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 24

Pinecrest Buttress 6 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 6

Primitive Buttress 14 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 14

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Elevation:	7,637 ft	2,328 m
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Description

The Lisu Area is, by far, most concentrated and popular crag in Li Ming, including the comfortable Pillars area, multipitch crag Primitive Buttress and the smaller but stacked Pinecrest Buttress. The Painted Wall is also grouped in the Lisu Area, but is accessed by going right from the stairs.

The Lisu Area is a great first-day climbing in Li Ming, with high quality routes from 5.8 to 5.13 of all crack sizes imaginable from the thin and technical to the wide and burly. The Lisu Area offers good options for chasing sun or shade depending on weather, making conditions comfortable throughout the whole Li Ming climbing season. There is enough here to keep most climbers busy for a month, without ever visiting the other crags.

Getting There

Casual 30 minute walk from Liming village. Head southwest, away from park entrance, for a little over a kilometer. Turn east, at the "Anqini Scenic Lookout 安七尼" sign, down towards the river, across a stone bridge and up the giant fake-wood staircase that leads to a cave and via-ferrata. At the obvious split boulder, there is a new sign pointing left towards Pillars, Primitive and Pinecrest areas. For the shadier Painted Wall, turn right at split boulder and take the faint trail up a large, obvious switchback over the conglomerate layer.

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Classic Climbing Routes at Lisu Area

Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.

5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a 24 ● The Great Owl Trad Pinecrest Buttress
5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b 27 ● Scarface II Trad Pinecrest Buttress
5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b 22 ● Morass Trad Pillars area
5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b 12 ● Clam Digger Trad Pillars area
5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b 12 ● Gore Trad Pinecrest Buttress
5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b PG13 5 ● [Redacted] Trad Pillars area
5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c 24 ● Faraway Corner Trad Pillars area
5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c 10 ● Screaming at the Faraway Corner Trad Pillars area
5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c 5 ● Foe-Hammer Trad Pinecrest Buttress
5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c 4 ● Làjiāo Trad Primitive Buttress
5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c 14 ● Clam Digger "Direct" Trad Pillars area
5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c 5 ● The Lost World Trad 5 pitches Primitive Buttress
5.11b/c 6c+ 23 VIII- 24 E4 6a A0 16 ● Back to the Primitive Trad, Aid 8 pitches Primitive Buttress
5.12- 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a 7 ● The Reckoning Trad Pinecrest Buttress
5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b 9 ● The Funky Dan Trad Pillars area