Grade
VI,5,7
Length
0m
0
Quality
First ascent
Guy McKinnon 11 July 2013
Located on
- P1
- Alpine (Commitment) VI
- Alpine (Technical) 5
- Alpine (Mt Cook) 7
climb the central weakness on the face (marked in above photo). He comments that he encountered ‘endless good ice climbing’ en-route and that the climb ‘was classic kiwi mountaineering style, gully and couloir ice with snow sections now and then. Two sections of technical grade 5 ice and mixed, but says that as he considered himself off-route for both of these sections, he hasn’t considered them in his given grade of VI, 4+. He does add that if the Darrans grading system was open-ended, the route would be grade VII.
Comments
UUID
18afb00a-f895-43e5-8f35-500913b2b7d6
It doesn't start off a glacier so it must be subalpinism. But I can read: 4+ is not 5, and where is there any mention of a Mt Cook grade? :)
In reply to It doesn't start off a by Richard Thomson
Leave the real climbing to the alpinists you little subalpine buttercup, Richard Thompson.
This isn't some skislope like the Caroline face.