White Vervoorn Buttress

If you can’t get onto Pudding Rock but have favourable weather and time, this would be a very nice consolation climb. Gain the buttress from the Hooker Glacier below the Hooker icefall. Involves moderately hard climbing on excellent rock (grade 13–15).
‘I’d say the starting altitude would be about 1500m and the rope work continues to about 1900m, after which it becomes a walk up snow and maybe a bit of ice here and there. Dave and I went no further up than circa. 2500m, where the ridge line levels off.’ – Aat Vervoorn