Type
Altitude
2450m
Part of
This is the large bluff on the left edge of the Mangatoetoenui Glacier, about 150m below the Summit Plateau. Ray Button climbed three routes in 1983 with pupils on an advanced ice-climbing course: two on the front face of the buttress, and another slightly further up the gully on the south side.
Image
Aspect
South
Lat/lon
-39.27309534,175.57924747, NZ Topo Map
Topo50
BJ34 225 497
Places
| Type | Name | Alert |
|---|---|---|
| Face | Button Buttress |
Routes
| Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Pro | Quality | Alert | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beetroot Boys, WI2 | WI2 | 25m | |||||
A line slightly further up the gully on the south side of the buttress. |
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| Wall of Silence, WI3 | WI3 | 30m | |||||
The left-hand line on the front of the buttress. |
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| Radiant Energy, WI2 | WI2 | 30m | |||||
On the right side of the buttress. |
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| Bootsplosion, WI4 | WI4 | 30m | |||||
A thin, wandering ice line starting at the bottom-right of the main face (right-hand line on the topo). |
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Comments
UUID
165266b6-6e32-403a-a9b6-2358f033da90