Slab climbing, more scrambling & tiny caving around one of the main defense points in the WW2. It could be added to coasteering under.

See full screen & the Garmin track easy escape due to rain & of the second day full exploration.

I had been in the area quite some times but I hadn’t scrambled the slabs ever. Tyler in town, short outing preferred, time to test this. The very old post from the wildconquerors had this diagram with the various ways they had climbed the wall.

I saw on the openstreetmap that there was a path heading just under the slab. So there we went!

But we were not lucky. It started drizzling as soon as we were on the slab and we needed to early scape. We found a relatively easy to follow path with ribbons just under the slabs, with small amount of scrambling. Go up to the battery and coasteer down back to the starting point.

After I had seen so many bolts, I decided to research a bit and bingo! I found this hongkongclimbing post. It confirmed the route that I had guessed was the best. Marked on their super useful diagram. The initial one and half red arrows is what I had climbed with Tyler. Then with him we continued on the dotted orange line up, just under the slabs.

A few weeks later, I went with Janis with the very same weather forecast. But this time did not rain at all and we were able to scramble and explore the hill leisurely. Video of the second day ascent. Janis fully on the red arrows. I checked the slightly easier orange in the middle too.

A video with a big group for more visual clues.

On the first section they go too much to the left side and they end up needing to use the rope. I prefer our ascent. Just a few meters more on the right side.

There are other section of the slabs, Terrace & Upper tier, that I have watched people climb. This video for example.


And way more with the 魔鬼西崖 tag. You can check the difficulty in the aforementioned hkclimbing.com web. As usual, be careful, assess objectively your abilities, bring some security gear, and keep all the bolts and the area in the best condition.

We briefly inspected the main Devil’s Peak climbing walls. Janis planning to go another day there climbing with full gear. We checked quite some more things around too. Tunnels & peculiar rock formations.

In my research I had found that there were mines around. You have this industrialhistoryhk.org post that explains about them. Including this map.

We checked a few on the Southermost part. Around those lower arrows. Small and or collapsed (0:31-1:03). But there are bigger mines.


I have marked (grey) one more that is next to the main path.

Janis with her t-shirt & short was not ready for more tunnel inspections. We bush walked a bit to go to the main battery again & we checked some more paths and rocks on the Western side of the hill. Including the Owl Rock 🦉

There are quite some WW2 constructions that I had checked before. All the East coast have tons of them already correctly marked on the openstreetmap.

My recommendation now. If you are experienced/skilled enough but you haven’t been in the area before. Go up the slab to the main fortification. Go down and check the small mine on the Northern side on your way to the coastline. And loop back to the starting point by dry coasteering. If you have a full day, check it all 😉

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