According to Peter Croft, the original problem begins by hand jamming the far-right crack and traversing leftwards to finish by hand jamming the far-left crack, hence the name “hand to hand combat.”  Nothing is off-route, and the problem can go low under the roof feature at the crux or by using holds along the lip of the roof.  Stopping short of the finishing crack will shave difficulty.

The Left to right version, starting with hands in the left crack and traversing to the right crack is quite a bit easier, probably more like V5.

Hand to Hand Combat Traverse

DB's Top Shelf

Pinch Problem

Pocket Problem

Crack Problem

Rene

Mortal Combat (AKA:  Hand to Hamtaro)

Sidepull Problem

No sleepy Yet

Hamtaro

Not Another Brit in Bishop

Hand to Hand Combat into the Hamtaro finish. Start at the far right crack (right start to HTHC) and finish on Hamtaro, eliminating the finishing crack and everything to the left of it as for that problem. Adds quality to this Rikki Ishoy poster climb of the Happy's.

On the far right side of the Hand to Hand Combat wall there is a steeply overhanging prow and here lies one of the best Dyno problems in perhaps all of Bishop. Yeah its that good. It may look improbable at first and the landing isn't great but this thing is the real deal. Start on pockets and choose good feet if you can't see the lip you're on the right problem. This thing is massive. Somehow grow the courage and huck for the lip. Use every bit of energy you have to hold the nearly horizontal swing. Mantel and celebrate. It takes alot of strength and power to pull this one off. Are you up for the challenge?

Grading is unconfirmed and it looks like static beta is plausible but realistically this is a solid v7 Dyno. A link up of Hand to Hand Combat into this Dyno is still waiting to be done at around V9.

Sit start and move throught the good pinch for the right up to a good hold above the overhang, then move on up the wall above on small sharp holds.

Sit start and clim the steep pocketed wall to the crux moves to gain the the jug at the top of the wall.   From the jug mantle up and over.

Sit start at the overhang and choose from a ton of pockets to make it through the overhang to a crack. Mantel over

Definitely one of the best highballs in the area!

Start at the center of the back wall. Move up to the deep hueco and here is where the fun begins....make some really committing moves on TINY pockets. Crux feels like the scary move you have to make to the lip.

The climb is well worth it, once you get back on the ground!

Sit start and move throught the pocketed wripple until possible to reach up to the small sidepull for the left hand.   Set the feet and go for the better holds at the top of the wall.

From a standing start reach up to the large flake.  Without pulling too hard move from this hold up and right with a long reach to a big hold above.   Finish easily above.

Starts near the end of Hand to Hand Combat, to the right of the crack.  SDS on obvious pockets and go straight up the prow utilizing a very thin crimp.  Presumably, everyting to the left of the crack is off.  Could be a touch soft for V8.

Bear-hug your way up this line, culminating in a toss from a good RH crimp to a jug. Cool grips, easy to spot.

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Routes in Hand to Hand Combat Wall