Consuming Void Coral left by Epic Monsters from the Void (Rift Herald and Baron Nashor) grants Bel'Veth her true form for an extended duration and causes minions that die in her presence to be reborn as faithful Voidlings. Upon consuming Void Coral, Bel’Veth temporarily changes into her True Form. Epic Monsters from the Void like Rift Herald and Baron Nashor drop special, voidier Void Coral.Īctive: Bel’veth consumes a piece of Void Coral and explodes, slowing and dealing True Damage to nearby enemies based on their missing health. Takedowns against Epic Monsters and Champions leave behind a piece of Void Coral. From here take the left slanting slab to the summit plateau.Passive: Every second attack against the same target deals additional True Damage, stacking infinitely. Move up and diagonally right to one large edge, then up onto another. This would mean the final pitch climbs the chimney directly above the small belay ledge. Guidebooks seem to suggest traversing further right to create a belay on a smaller ledge. From a small ledge make some hard moves to gain a bigger ledge / niche where the final belay can be made. Start the pitch traversing easily right around the corner before trending up and right. From here there is a wedged boulder above, pass this on the right side to make a belay in the cave on top of the wedged boulder. This is the belay point for the Diamond Face Route. After this move up and left to another ledge. Make bold moves up steep ground either directly above the belay point or using the right trending grove, then moving left again at the break.

Reach a comfortable ledge just out of sight of the start of the route, a belay can be set up here at the base of the slab.Ĭlimb up the slab, trending right at the top to create a belay on the next large ledge. Route finding on pitches 3 and 4 can be tricky and these are arguably the hardest parts of the climb despite the traverse on pitch one getting the hardest technical grade in guidebooks.Ĭlimb up a couple of moves and then traverse left around the base of the stack using one small horizontal break for feet and a bigger horizontal break for hands. In terms of protection, medium, large and even very large cams can be helpful for protecting parts of the route.

The route certainly has variety, exposure, a beautiful setting and an incredible abseil finish. The Original Route on the Old Man of Stoer is one of a handful of so called 4 star climbs (4 stars out of 3).

Overhang and very poorly equipped (rusting / rotting in July 2022), so The intermediate belay station at 40m is hard to reach due to the It is possible to rock hop and wade across, around 100m north of the stack if there is a very low tide.ĭescent: Make a single abseil off using a pair of 60m Swimming the channel (and setting up a rope traverse) is the alternative if there is no rope in place. There is usually a Tyrolean traverse in situ that can be used to get to the stack (in July 2022 it was tied around a boulder on the mainland with a 4-point traditional anchor on the stack). Standing on the mainland at the first point you reach across from the stack, there is a small steep path down, requiring some scramble that can be damp from run-off in places. It will take roughly an hour to reach the Old Man of Stoer. From there take the coastal path heading 3Km northwards to the sea stack, going over the hill of Sidhean Mor. Approach: Park at the car park near the Stoer Light house (58.237948, -5.400902).

Sea stack attack