The end of the expedition

05th. Time for a new place
With a 7.00am start we went to: san men hai. It’s a river that comes out of the mountain with 3 big arches over the top of it and the bluest water you have ever seen! Adong had a bad stomach so I lead a corner crack which was a bit vegetated. I climbed it on trad and onsite. It was about 5.8 and had a really nice belay in the shade. When I started on the second pitch I found 3 wooden pegs made of old tree branches. They had been there for a bit. I was not the first person to have climbed this, indeed it had been sent before but by locals. I could not imagine the purpose of climbing such a rout; maybe there was a bee hive there before. With that in mined I really hoped that now there was not any bees! From the tope of this second pitch we found some more old scaffolding made of tree branches. This was a natural end for this rout and we abseiled off.
After Adong climbed leading with a drill a 5.10b? It was one of the most balls out limestone assents I have ever seen. He climbed leading with the drill and bolting hanging with one hand! He said before he climbed with us and all our equipment he always made routs like this! After that we were very tired and hungry so we went back down to the village and swam and eat. It has to be one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

6th. Me and Adong finished work on the Magic Monkey Buttress and bolted the top pitch on the roof of the dragon cave. It was dirty and scary and lots of people came to watch. It took me a very long time to do it as it was so confusing. I could not see which way to go even though I had it all worked out on the ground!

7th. The big sealing
All day to finish and bolt the bottom pitch and send the top one on the crazy sealing climb in the dragon cave. Adong again had the hardest job of bolting on repel the first pitch of the sealing climb with only a few quick draws as the rest were all in the top pitch! We were both very tired but happy to be finished and have all the routs we had started equipped and ready for use.

08th. Play day
Last day in Feng Shan we met up with Jean and to girls from Naning and when to San Men Hai swimming, playing and making lots of Chinese style photographs. It was a nice holiday after our hard days bolting.

09th. Escaping Feng Shan
We got the money from Mr Wei but it was to late for me to get back to Yangshuo so I stayed another day in feng shan and when roller scatting. Adong took the bus to naning as his family live there.

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