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Scissors Pk

Type

Altitude

2339m

Part of

Above Barron Saddle

Lat/lon

-43.75958569,169.9853623, NZ Topo Map

Topo50

BY15 573 504

Accessed from

Mueller Glacier

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Routes

Reference	Title	Grade	Length	Pro	Quality	Alert	Operations
	Crew Cut, 4+	4+	0m		0
P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 4+ North East Face. About the centre of the wall between Scissors and Mt Montgomery there is a broad gully that forms ice in the cooler months. A steep headwall caps the gully and is bypassed on the right, then straight up slopes to ridge.
	Direct from the Mueller Glacier, 2	2	0m		0
P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 2 Ascend sound rock which gradually eases back.
	From Fyfe Pass, 1	1	0m		0
P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 1 An easy scramble. It is possible to ascend up under Mt Montgomery from the upper Mueller Glacier and so onto Scissors.
	West Face, 2	2	0m		0
The options for entry and exit from the Landsborough vary a lot with the conditions, but the slabs on the south western side of Scissors generally provide the best exit and entry from the upper Landsborough to the Mueller Glacier. The route is up rock slabs or snow to a saddle underneath Scissors. An easy sidle leads from the saddle toward Barron Saddle Hut and the upper Mueller Glacier. P1 Alpine (Mt Cook) 2

Comments

This place appears in

Aoraki Tai Poutini: a guide for mountaineers, 2018

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Attribution

Alex Palman

UUID

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