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This is what this climb is about. Maumau stemming on delicate toe locks.
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Jeff G OS
Maumau making the reach to transfer into the right crack.
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Darshan Ahluwalia
Sep 18, 2006
“This is what this climb is about. Maumau stemming on delicate toe locks.”  

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I recall that this route really works the calf muscle...mine were burning even before I reached the slippery crux. The perfect finger locks above are a real present to the leader who just finished the "I'm-gonna-pop-any-minute" crux sequence. Mar 23, 2015

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Jeff G OS
This is what this climb is about. Maumau stemming on delicate toe locks.
Maumau making the reach to transfer into the right crack.
Peter Hayes nearing the crux of "Etude", June, 1987.
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