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Watchtower (South West) Ridge

Grade
3+
Quality
0
First ascent
H T Barcham, Ash Cunningham, A Witten-Hannah, December 1952
Located on
Mt Burns
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 3+

Gain the ridge from the upper Mueller Glacier north of the Watchtower (a prominent knob near Fyfe Pass was first climbed by Otto Frind and Conrad Kain in Feb 1914) via a short face climb. The upper ridge is complicated by awkward slanting rock. The rock steps can be best turned on the slabby western face. The eastern side tends to be rotten.

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