Original Route

From the Bowen River head directly for the great scrub wall below Barren Peak. A few 100 metres north of the large bluffs follow a series of slabs angling up and left to a small terrace. A further 100 metres of near vertical scrub trending right gains a small basin below the col north of Barren Peak. Traverse the ridge south to the summit. The party descended the devastatingly steep Cleddau Ridge to the Milford Lodge.