Natural Selection

Grade

4,WI4

Length

500m

Natural pro required

Quality

First ascent

Lee Mackintosh, Chris Elliott, Aug 19 2014

Located on

Mt Darwin

P1
Alpine (Mt Cook) 4
Water Ice WI4
500m
Trad

Up the easy snow slopes trending slightly left of the black thumbnail and the corniced ridge above. Steep climbing and technical crux (AI4) lessening to 70 degree ice leads left up a snow-ice couloir to a ridgeline. Traverse left and straight up a headwall for 80m of 60 degree ice.

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