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Bowie Ridge Upper Buttress

Grade
IV,4,13
Length
0m
0
Quality
0
First ascent
Dick Irwin, Hamish MacInnes, Peter Robinson, February 1956
Located on
Aoraki Mt Cook
Topo ref
4.26

Can be approached from either the upper Linda Glacier or from a subsidiary gully from Bowie Couloir. The upper buttress comprises good rock. Then traverse a spicy ridge with gendarmes to join the top of Zurbriggen's Ridge beneath the approach to the summit rocks.

  • P1
  • 13
  • Alpine (Commitment) IV
  • Alpine (Technical) 4
Northern aspects of Aoraki Mt Cook and the Linda Glacier, August 2014
Comments
UUID
 
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