MOUNTAIN LOG NEWS 27 DONEGAL TRAD Sea stack climbs in 2024 By Iain Miller The sea stacks of Donegal were busy over 2024, with a number of excellent new routes climbed and several significant repeats. In April, Stephen Frawley and Lisa Murdiff added the excellent Helicopter, an HS 4b, to Na hOileáin. This pretty much completes the development of this archipelago of sea stacks and island just to the north of Cruit Island. In May and June, several excellent lines were added to Tor Leice Riseach by visiting climbers Tom Booth, Almasa Pasalic and Lisa Murdiff. The best of these lines is An Líne is Fear E1 5a which takes the deep and steep crack line running up the centre of the stack’s seaward face. Last September, visiting American climbers Danny Parker, Ashling Cracoft, Andy Burr and Kev Meleta took great advantage of a spell of über calm in the deep blue. They spent a week in the county and got the second ascent of Stac an Iolar off Árainn Mhór, climbing the 13-year-old route Blood Line XS up the stack’s seaward face. Pictured this page: Stephen Frawley and Lisa Murdiff on the first ascent of Helicopter HS 4b on Na hOileáin. Photo: Iain Miller Previous page: Danny Parker and Andrew Burr at the top of Axe Blade. Photo: Iain Miller
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