The way continues up a short scree section, followed by more hiking up a quite steep gradient, until the final 20 metres (66 ft) are made up a grassy slope.

From here, the top of Leslie's Pass[a] follows, and a spectacular hike up the ridge connecting Lithobolong and Maifadi.

On 8 October 2015, South African trail runners Ryan Sandes and Ryno Griesel set a Fastest Known Time (FKT) for the ascent of Mafadi via the Northern High Approach, an alternative, and slightly shorter but steeper route of the popular Corner's pass.

They set a time of 5h 47.59 min, starting and ending at the Njesuthi campsite, and covered a total of 38.52 kilometres (23.94 mi) with approximately 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) of elevation gain/loss.

[3] The previous FKT was set in 2012 by fellow South African, Andrew Porter, with a time of 6 h 22 min from the Giant's Castle campsite via Judge pass.