Mt Darwin

From the Tasman Glacier; A long rock ridge involving five (but you might find more) major rock steps of dubious quality rock.

Ascend the prominent rock spur leading up onto the West Ridge. Between here and the buttresses are a number of descent routes, but be careful as certain couloirs end in bluffs.

A long but easy climb gained from the névé feeding the Tasman Glacier above Darwin Corner.

Head up to the left of a small icefall on the left of the face, then wind through cliffs onto snowslopes on the far left of the face. Finish onto the West Ridge via a wide couloir.

Up the easy snow slopes trending slightly left of the black thumbnail and the corniced ridge above. Steep climbing and technical crux (AI4) lessening to 70 degree ice leads left up a snow-ice couloir to a ridgeline. Traverse left and straight up a headwall for 80m of 60 degree ice.

Ascend towards the saddle at the head of the Darwin Glacier and then cut off up snowslopes towards the summit.

Ski initially downhill from Kelman or Tasman Saddle Huts, and then up a broad slope to a shoulder at 933840, where there are great views across to Mt Malte Brun. A good ski run of around 500 vertical metres may be obtained back to the floor of the Tasman Glacier.