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Denz Route

Grade
VI,4,5
Length
0m
0
Quality
0
First ascent
Bill Denz, November 1972;
Glenn Pennycook, July 2001
A Korean party climbed either the Denz Route or a new line slightly to the left in the mid-1980s. Information is scant, but indicates that they topped out somewhere on the upper South Ridge where they were rescued.
Located on
Caroline Face
Topo ref
4.06

Follow The Clit Route to the shelf, then head quickly across the shelf below icecliffs and ascend gullies and snowfields 1000m to the Low Peak, meeting the South Ridge just below the summit.

  • P1
  • Alpine (Commitment) VI
  • Alpine (Technical) 4
  • Alpine (Mt Cook) 5

Follow the Clit Route to the shelf, then head across the shelf and ascend gullies and snowfields l000m to the Low Peak, meeting the South Ridge 40m below the summit.

Comments
Attribution
Aoraki Tai Poutini, Rob Frost, 2018
UUID
 
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