Buttons Buttress

Type

Face

Altitude

2450m

Part of

Aspect

South

This is the large bluff on the left edge of the Mangatoetoenui Glacier, about 150m below the Summit Plateau. Ray Button climbed three routes in 1983 with pupils on an advanced ice-climbing course: two on the front face of the buttress, and another slightly further up the gully on the south side.

Map

Lat/lon

-39.27309534,175.57924747, NZ Topo Map

Topo50

BJ34 225 497

Routes

Reference	Title	Grade	Length	Quality
	Beetroot Boys, WI2	WI2	25m	0
P1 Water Ice WI2 25m A line slightly further up the gully on the south side of the buttress.
	Wall of Silence, WI3	WI3	30m	1.02
P1 Water Ice WI3 30m The left-hand line on the front of the buttress.
	Radiant Energy, WI2	WI2	30m	0
P1 Water Ice WI2 30m On the right side of the buttress.
	Bootsplosion, WI4	WI4	30m	0
P1 Water Ice WI4 30m A thin, wandering ice line starting at the bottom-right of the main face (right-hand line on the topo).

Places

Type	Name	Alert
Face	Button Buttress

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UUID

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