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The Beauty

5.10, Trad, 4 pitches,  Avg: 3.9 from 16 votes
FA: W. Colonna, A. Baker '85
International > Asia > Jordan > Wadi Rum > Jebel Nassarani
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Description

The Beauty is a classic route, and a great intro to climbing in the Rum. The approach is not that long, maybe an hour if you do it right, but quite involved. The climbing is all of high quality.

Pitch 1: Climb the beautiful corner. with laybacks and hand jams to a nice ledge with bolts.

Pitch 2: Interesting twin cracks lead to a one bolt belay, skip this and continue to stem upwards to a great ledge with two bolts.

Pitch 3: Some scary face moves protected by drilled pins right of the ledge, to easier climbing over some soft rock to a one bolt belay ledge under the off-width

Pitch 4: Squirm up the wide crack to a large ledge with bolts.

Rappel the route with two ropes. If you bring only one rope, you will have to rap off one bolt anchors in a couple spots.

Location

Hire a driver to take you from the village to the route, or for those on a budget, hike up through Rakabat Canyon (1.5-2 hours each way). 

Protection

two sets of cams to 4" and stoppers.
one 5 and 6 camalot.

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At the bottom of the 1st pitch.
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P3. Beautiful and enjoyable pitch.
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Cam running it out on P2 or P3 of The Beauty.
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Alex on P1 of The Beauty
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The crack at pitch 2.
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Da splitter
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Chris leading the lovely first pitch.
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