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Scissors Pk

Type
Mountain
Altitude
2339m
Part of
Main Divide

Above Barron Saddle

Lat/lon
POINT (169.9853623 -43.75958569)
Topo50
BY15 573 504
Accessed from
Mueller Glacier
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
 Crew Cut, 4+ 4+
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
0
  • P1
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 2

Ascend sound rock which gradually eases back.
 From Fyfe Pass, 1 1
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
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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