Grade
II,4,15
Length
0m
0
Natural pro requiredQuality
First ascent
Ross Cullen, Bill McLeod, April 2004
Located on
Eight pitches with the first and final pitches providing excellent climbing. Begin by climbing the obvious left tending crack for 15m, then straight up the fine fall line crack system at grade 15. Continue on up steady grade 12 climbing until the final pitch which includes a section of perfect finger crack, grade 15. Finishes by surmounting the preposterous summit block.
Take double green, yellow and grey aliens and you'll enjoy yourself a bit more.
Be prepared for some creative belays.
- P1
- 15
- Alpine (Commitment) II
- Alpine (Technical) 4
- Trad
Comments
UUID
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We climbed this in six pitches over 3.5 hours.
Pitch one was pretty good but had some loose blocks.
Pitch two and five were amazing!
Pitch six (the finger crack) was nice but even with my fat ass hands it was offwidth fingers. Someone with smaller hands will enjoy probably the best hand crack in all the NZ alpine.
We walked off to the west of where we finished, sidling below some loose ridgeline before dropping into a big wide scree fan.