Tioman Climbing Guidebook

Bagus Tower

All Along the Watchtower

★★★

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6a+ 300 m · 10 pitches
First ascent
Timothée Guillon, Shaiful Amin, Nicolas Gay
Year
2015
Area
Bagus Tower
Descent
Complicated abseil
All Along the Watchtower — hand-drawn topo from the logbook (source page 26).
All Along the Watchtower — hand-drawn topo from the logbook (source page 26).
Pitches

No pitch-by-pitch record survives for this route. If you have climbed it, the logbook wants your topo.

Approach

Drive or walk the Bagus Place road to its end, then head up into the jungle to the tower. The access path was cut in 2015 and reports since describe it as overgrown – expect route-finding and regrowth. See Bagus Tower.

Character

The first route on the tower. Not direct, but with some pleasant pitches and a lot of jungle research and scrambling. Graded TD−.

Gear

2 sets of Friends, 1 set of nuts, 2 × 60 m ropes (50 m works).

Loose flake noted on the topo mid-route, and the abseil is described as complicated. The approach path is overgrown.

Remote and committing. Emergency contact Tam Haja +60 12-919 0785 — rescue info.

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