There’s no doubt that sea cliffs have a unique charm, one that draws climbers and mountaineers back time and time again. The drama of battling your way up a sea cliff, while crashing waves thunder below, is spectacular. Coastal cliffs are dynamic places; the setting is never quite the same from one day to the next thanks to the ebb and flow of the tides and the weather. They’re often remote and difficult to reach too, which only adds to the sense of adventure. It’s an arena of substantial allure for the vertically inclined.
However, knowing how to start sea cliff climbing can be tricky for the uninitiated. The pursuit has a number of additional challenges piled – like the rock layers of a towering sea stack – on top of the already involved world of trad climbing. The last thing you want to do is bite off more than you can chew and end up having an epic.
