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1996-1998. Mount Stuart was the place where I basically taught myself to climb during Uni.
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DK > Mount Stuart from the air © L Cujes 2000
DK > Topo of the Mount. © L Cujes 1998
DK > Me doing my first ever 23 on lead - Two Hands Are Better Than One (23). Check out Keith "belaying" in the background. I use the term loosely. © G Brazendale 1997
DK > Doug Hockly whipping off one of his 28+ projects. Still not sent to this day I believe. This was also the image that launched the qurank e'zine concept in about 1998. © L Cujes 1998
DK > Me on the first ascent of The Fifth Element (21/23). This height-dependant route relied on fiddling in wires to avoid a decent plummet. These days we would have sport bolted the whole thing I'm sure. The trivia is that this is the one route of mine that Douglas Hockly fell off. ** The Fifth Element 25m 21 The crux likes to spit people off. Harder if you're short. Starts at ground level on the buttress directly below the obvious, orange upper Colorado Wall and about 10m R of AFGM. Up R-trending seam to good natural pro, then ledge and first of five black FH's. Up and through 1m roof (FH). Up and R to FH, then R again into thin cracks on arête. A long and insecure crux move to small wire placement then further up crack to stance (FH). Move L onto face, layoff seam and more face climbing to fifth FH, then more of the same to chains on main ledge (base of Immortality and Siddhartha). Lower off, or continue up one of these. Lee Skidmore, Erik Smits 3/7/98 © E Smits 1998
DK > Climber on Too Much Fun (22), The Playground. © L Cujes 1998
DK > The fabulous Colorado Wall. "Taipan of the North" © L Cujes 1998
DK > Sequence of Doug Hockly pinkpointing Physical Meditation (25). This is one of the Mount's hardest routes, despite the modest grade. © L Cujes 1998
DK > Controversy!! Me on the first ascent of a route that never was - Fame (22). I squeezed this route in between two existing natural lines - not a great idea in retrospect. After I left Townsville, the bolts got chopped. By Doug incidentally! © S Baskerville 1998
Mount Stuart from the air
© L Cujes 2000
> Mount Stuart from the air © L Cujes 2000
Mount Stuart from the air
© L Cujes 2000
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