Lots of fun moves on positive holds.

Start on the flat area between the big flakes and the wall, and go roughly straight up.

warning

: The rock in this area has not been climbed much yet, and much of the rock is still breakable and loose -- so the belayer and other people should stand far away from underneath the climber.

Behind the Potato Chips

Frendo Corner

Lots of fun moves around difficulty 5.8 in dihedral / "open book".

Unfortunately the starting first couple of moves on the face up from the obvious bottom ledge are much harder.

Go first roughly straight up the face to the bottom of the corner / dihedral, then up that to the top.

Top-Roping trick? If the current climber wishes to keep the difficulty more uniform, that climber (if on Top-Rope getting belayed by a partner above by the top anchor) might consider rappeling (or getting lowered) only to some point on the climb

above

the obvious bottom ledge.

Aid? If attempting to Lead this pitch, it is

unlikely

that those first much harder moves can be Aided with trad protection pieces.

Name: At Chamonix Mont Blanc, the Frendo dihedral (open book corner) is between the Aiguille Grepon and the Aiguille du Roc -- as one the upper pitches on a long great route from the Envers side -

See this report

.

warning

: The rock in this area has not been climbed much yet, and much of the rock is still breakable and loose -- so the belayer and other people should stand far away from underneath the climber.

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Protection

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