Puncak Nipah

Green Line Route

★★★

6a 200 m · 4 pitches

First ascent

Nico, Tim, Appol, Tom

Year

2015

Approach

From the jungle below the south side

Descent

Down-climb or walk off

Topo of Green Line Route — The Green Line Route — hand-drawn topo (route book source page 5).

Pitches

No pitch-by-pitch record survives for this route. If you have climbed it, the logbook wants your topo.

Character

Up the summit tower of Puncak Nipah from the jungle on its south side. One 80 m pitch, big runouts, tree belays, and a hornet nest marked on the topo.

Gear

Natural protection throughout.

No fixed gear and no abseil line. The first ascensionists wrote “very dangerous but easy — should be better to bolt route.” The difficulty is runouts and looseness, not hard moves.

Potential

The topo has two separate arrows pointing at unclimbed rock, both labelled “big potential for new routes”.