Moo Myeong Ridge Multipitch Climb

As mentioned in another post, in November I found out about a group climbing gathering in the second largest city in Korea by the name of Busan. I headed down to Busan on a Friday after school, and met part of the group and Robin and Feliz, who I would be staying with. We had a few drinks, and discussed the climbing options for the following day. I decided that I want to do the Moo Myeong Ridge multipitch climb with Robin and another guy named Jake.

For those of you unfamiliar with climbing, a multipitch climb is made up of different sections called pitches. Each pitch is within the span of the rope length (technically half the rope length). Most of the pitches for this climb were around ten to twenty five meters or so. There were five or six pitches in the climb. Some sections were just scrambles across rocks without rope, and some were straight up rock faces.

The next morning we woke up, met the group of about thirty climbers at a coffee shop and we all split off to different crags around the city. Robin, Jake, and I took the subway and then a cab to the bottom of the approach hike. The weather was a little chillier than we thought it would be once we got to the more exposed parts of the climb, but the views of Busan and the color changing trees from above were a nice tradeoff.

At the end of the climb there was a jump across a meter and a half wide gap in the rock at the top of the mountain. Robin and Jake did this no problem, hopping back and fourth across the gap with ease. I won’t even try to pretend that the jump didn’t faze me. It took a few minutes of working myself up to finally make that jump. Once we made it across we shared some whiskey and soaked in the views of the coast.

We hiked down from the top of the mountain and met up with some climbers that had been bouldering near another crag. After every dropped their gear off and got sorted, we all met up to share photos of the different climbs and share some drinks. Great day!