wide variety at all grades above VS; little below VS
Rock type
Dolerite sill with olivine
Quantity of rock
453 routes, online database
432 routes, 2014 guidebook
Development
Mountain cliff area; no facilities
Cliff aspect
North and North-west
Elevation
base is 100 metres (330 ft) a.s.l
Ownership
Private but access granted
Camping
Paid camping; also in Ballycastle
Classic climbs
Black Thief (VS 4b)
Midnight Cruiser (E1 5b)
The Fence (VS 4c)
Girona (VS 4c, 4c)
Railroad (E1 5b)
Hell's Kitchen (HVS 5a, 5a)
Burn Up (E1 5a, 5a)
An Bealach Runda (E1 5a, 5b, 5a)
Website
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Fair Head or Benmore (Irish: An Bhinn Mhór; The Great Cliff)[1] is a 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) long, 200-metre (660 ft) high, mountain cliff, close to the sea, at the north-eastern corner of County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The cliff's sheer and vertical 100-metre (330 ft) high dolerite rock face is shaped into distinctive vertical columns like organ pipes, which formed 60 million years ago when a sill of igneous rock was injected between horizontal Carboniferous sediments.
Fair Head is considered one of the best traditional climbing and bouldering locations in the British Isles, and is one of the biggest expanses of climbable rock in Northwest Europe. It has one of the largest concentration of extreme-graded routes in the British Isles, and has climbs at E9-grade (e.g. Rathlin Effect), as well as highball problems at E9-grade (e.g. Long runs the Fox), and bouldering at 8B+ (V14) grade (e.g. Blondie SDS).[2][3]
^ abMcKay, Patrick (1999). Dictionary of Ulster Place-Names. Clo Ollscoil na Banriona. p. 24. ISBN 978-0853898962. Fair Head, An Bhinn Mhór "the great cliff"
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