Cosmic Buttress

Paul and me arrived at Cosmic Buttress on Stanage in unseasonably warm sunshine. This buttress is fairly short but bristles with overhangs. 

Cosmic Buttress

We warmed up on X-Ray a tough hard severe which avoided the worst of the overhangs but still gave food for thought with tricky moves up a thin crack.
Paul then tackled Electron (VS 5a) which went easily up to crux moves through overhangs. After several attemps to surmount the final cux overhang he admitted defeat being unable to get his hands in the the crucial hand jam. 

Paul on Electron

I climbed up on Pauls gear and after some to-ing and fro-ing managed to get the jam with my smaller hands and pull through the roof.
Paul then led Cosmic Crack a meaty VS 4c with a barn door move through the final roof.
A combination of the warm sun and the shinanegans on Electron sapped our energy so we called it a day with not quite a half ganley in the bag.
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