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Cave Route

Grade
IV,4
Length
0m
0
Quality
0
First ascent
Sam Bosshard, Andy MacFarlane, September 1993
Located on
Brunner Col
Topo ref
2.58

This is currently the only known route to climb the fantastic looking icefields between the lower Frind Glacier and the upper Donne Glacier. This route aims for the obvious gully. There is a small cave about two thirds of the way up, which is not easily visible from below but provides a sheltered bivvy spot. The wall to the right looks to offer good steep ice, especially during early spring. The first ascentionists descended the standard route form the col.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) IV
  • Alpine (Technical) 4

A direct, but hard, way onto the upper Frind Route (see Mt Sefton) from the Frind Glacier. Ascend five rope lengths tending left to a cave in an obvious gully and up this for four rope lengths to easier ground and then to the upper Donne Glacier. The cave is good for a bivvy.

Slopes below Brunner Col in winter conditions, June 2015
Comments
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