Sky Exits Team : Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand wall

From Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand Wall

Railay’s Thaiwand Wall is as beautiful as the face that launched a thousand ships. Its perfect 200-metre multihued form rears up out of the Andaman Sea and from it drip stalactites like the wax from a candle. It’s obviously a debatable assertion to claim that Railay’s Thaiwand Wall is the finest crag is southeast Asia, but I doubt whether there are many climbers who have experienced it who will mock the assertion. This chunk of rock is special in lots of different ways.

Firstly, it is hollow; non-climbers can ascend fixed ropes and ladders all the way through it from behind, starting from the northern end of the incomparably beautiful Phra Nang beach and emerging 30 metres above the equally stunning West Railay beach. The only piece of equipment needed is a torch.

Secondly, the view from its middle- and upper reaches is simply sublime, the buttressed ramparts of Tonsai’s Sleeping Indian Wall framing the beach in an almost impossibly lovely rock amphitheatre.

Thirdly, this place has routes for everybody, from‘rock-faller-offers’ and intermediate crag-hangers through to the rock gymnasts many of us so
admire and wish to emulate.

Fourthly, the rock here is just gorgeous, like a nonexistent volcano had poured multicoloured lava all down it, while leaving often tiny and sometimes agonizingly sparse holds along the way.

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From Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand Wall

From Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand Wall

From Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand Wall

From Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand Wall

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Sky Exits Team : Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand wall

From Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand Wall

From Climbing : Krabi : Railay : Thaiwand Wall