As has been mentioned already new routes are believed to have been climbed on a small slab on the North coast of Cornwall at New Polzeath. Four routes have now been climbed from VD to VS 5a. The lower grade routes provide some easy slab climbing leading into some unpleasant steep grass!
’1906′ is a lovely HS 4b which follows the only crack running two-thirds of the way up the longest part of the slab. ‘Black rain’ is a cracking VS 5a although an eliminate this is a great slab route running to the left of 1906… Black rain was so named as the top quarter was climbed in the rain and the rock really does turn into ice in the rain due to the black lichen covering the rock.
