The Far Side

A visionary line that takes the impressive central buttress of the east face and requires commitment. There is plenty of room for variations. The first ascentionists reported 700m of quality rock (16 pitches) with a crux of 16. A subsequent party has described the route as sustained grade 16 with crux pitches of 18, reporting “variable rock” and “a few moments of brilliance”. A party that completed a variation finish to the left of the original line may have experienced suboptimal routefinding due to climbing the last five pitches in the dark.