Corphalie (Huy)

Access is sensitive!

As for all belgian climbing site, you must be member of an official climbing federation to be allowed to access and climb here. For Belgians : CAB (Club Alpin Belge), KBF (Klim- en bergsport Federatie), UBS (Union Belge de Spéleo) for foreigners : NKBV (Nederlandse Klim- en Berg Vereniging), FFCAM (Fédération Française des Club Alpins de Montagne), FFME (Fédération Française de Montagne et Escalade), DAV (Deutsche Alpen Verein) ... and all federations member of UIAA. You must have your valid member card with you and show it in case of control.
Camping, bivak and fires are forbidden on the whole area.

How to reach the cliff
By train : Huy railway station is about 3 km to the west of the cliff
By bus : line 85 from
By car : GPS 75, Quai de Compiègne, 4500 HUY.
Parking : along the road or aside the car wash (leave the car wash access free !)

Access to the cliff
Right of and behind the car wash, you have a small tunnel under the railways then a path is leading up to the different sectors. At the first info-board, you can go right to the "Dalle du Chemin de Fer" and left to the other sectors. The next crossroads is before and under sector "Tremblotte" where you have a path going left and down to the "dalle école" and some meters further a path going right and up to the ridge above the whole cliff. Going further via a delicate passage, just above "dalle école", you reach the foot of "La patinoire" and around the corner "la Zone centrale". The path is going down on rocks (a short fixed rope) then traverse on a narrow ledge. At the end of it you can climb up some meters (fixed rope) to arrive at the foot of the routes in the left part of "Zone centrale" and also behind and above the yew, you can follow yellow marks leading to the top. Beware for this mountain goat path as the first traverse is not secured (you have a big peg at the end of the traverse to secure the follower). If you take down under the yew, you arrive under "la Grande Dalle" then always further "la Dalle des Acacias". At the left end of "Les acacias", you can scramble up (some fixed ropes) to reach the top of the cliff where you find an easy path that traverse the whole cliff and leads to the back side of "la dalle du Chemin de fer". There are 2 possibilities from the top to walk down to the foot of the cliff. The left one is the mountain goat from the left top of "La Zone Centrale" leading to the foot of "la Zone Centrale" passing at the belay of "les surplombs de l'Orvet". Beware for this path that is quite exposed. The best way is to take the path at a big cairn going down to the foot of "La Tremblote". All those path are marked with yellow markers.