Grade
III,3+,3
Length
0m
0
Quality
First ascent
Peter Graham, Claude Macdonald, Jim Murphy, Feb 1909
Located on
Topo ref
5.107
From Malte Brun Pass, skirt around the first few pinnacles on the west side of the lower ridge, then head up the crest of the ridge, which rises in two long steps. The rock is very rotten and in parts the ridge is quite exposed. Not recommended as a summer climb, but rather when it is covered with snow and ice (this doesn’t stop some people though). Probably the best way to descend if you’ve just climbed the South West Face.
- P1
- Alpine (Commitment) III
- Alpine (Technical) 3+
- Alpine (Mt Cook) 3
Comments
Attribution
Alex Palman
UUID
97240763-5b9f-4f31-b2b8-5c9dd15ba49a
An earlier descent of Malte's south ridge occurred on 28 February, 1958. The party: Ivan McDonald, Peter Olorenshaw, Dave Elphick and John Richards. The latter recorded the event in the 1958 NZ Alpine Journal (Malte Brun, The South Ridge. J. E. Richards).
In reply to An earlier descent of Malte's by ivanmc
I think this referred to the descent after the FWA of the South Face by Main and Logan