diff --git a/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/PlayerCharacterController.cs b/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/PlayerCharacterController.cs
index a43e198..7e782c9 100644
--- a/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/PlayerCharacterController.cs
+++ b/Assets/Scripts/Components/Controller/PlayerCharacterController.cs
@@ -740,6 +740,21 @@ public class PlayerCharacterController : MonoBehaviour
             }
             else if (found)
             {
+                // Pinch between two surfaces: the center band can miss the (still touching) climbed
+                // face and catch a DIFFERENT collider much farther out. Adopting that hit flips the
+                // normal and the standoff servo drags the capsule across the pinch — oscillating
+                // every other frame with the span probe snapping it back. When the full-capsule span
+                // still holds a steep surface meaningfully closer, THAT contact is the climbed face:
+                // keep it instead of defecting to the far hit.
+                if (gap > (_controller.skinWidth + 0.05f) * CapsuleScale
+                    && ProbeWallSpan(out Vector3 heldNormal, out float heldGap)
+                    && heldGap + 0.05f * CapsuleScale < gap
+                    && Vector3.Angle(heldNormal, Vector3.up) >= wallMinAngle
+                    && heldNormal.y > CeilingNormalThreshold)
+                {
+                    probedNormal = heldNormal;
+                    gap = heldGap;
+                }
                 _wallNormal = probedNormal;
                 _lostContactTimer = 0f;
                 UpdateCeilingClass();