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Places
| Type | Name |
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| Face | Darwin Buttresses |
Routes
| Reference | Title | Grade | Length | Pro | Quality | Operations |
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| Annan-Darwin Ridge, 3+ | 3+ | |||||
From the Tasman Glacier; A long rock ridge involving five (but you might find more) major rock steps of dubious quality rock. |
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| North West Arête, 2 | 2 | |||||
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. |
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| West Ridge, 2 | 2 | |||||
A long but easy climb gained from the névé feeding the Tasman Glacier above Darwin Corner. |
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| South Face, 3 | 3 | |||||
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. |
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| Natural Selection, 4,WI4 | 4,WI4 | 500m |  |
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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. |
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| Darwin Route, 2+ | 2+ | |||||
Ascend towards the saddle at the head of the Darwin Glacier and then cut off up snowslopes towards the summit. |
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| DARWIN SHOULDER, Ski Touring | ||||||
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. |
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