The summit area consists of all the crags above 2400 metres including those forming the crater rim and summit dome. Each of the crags is detailed in clockwise direction starting with Crater Face of Sharks Tooth, Stargate Slab, and West Face.
The summit area consists of all the crags above 2400 metres including those forming the crater rim and summit dome. Each of the crags is detailed in clockwise direction starting with Crater Face of Sharks Tooth, Stargate Slab, and West Face.
All the crags are involved when completing a crater rim traverse.
Over the decades many climbers have scaled and explored routes all around the summit area, most have not left detailed notes of their routes nor names to define them.
Ice Climbing.
The summit area generally lacks cohesive ice conditions found elsewhere on the mountain. Nevertheless there are a number of good single pitches with safe belays.
1 Crater Face
2 Stargate Slab
3 West Face
4 Escudo Buttress
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| West Face of the Summit Block | WI3 |
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A good pitch in a fine situation starting up an obvious left to right ramp then directly to the summit. Only one short, steep, step at the top of the initial ramp.
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| West Ridge Direct | WI3 |
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The West Ridge forms a beautiful snow arete in its upper reaches and a narrow
ice arete around the southern crater rim. Separating the two is a steep
pitch, seldom climbed, which forms the crux of the West Ridge Direct.
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Places
| Type | Title | Link to edit content |
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| Face (Alpine) | Crater Face/ Sharks Tooth (17 routes) | |
| Wall | Stargate Slab (6 routes) | |
| Wall | West Face (4 routes) | |
| Wall | Sisters Ridge (5 routes) | |
| Wall | Escudo Buttress (2 routes) |