Reference:
2
Type:
Rock Pitch:
| # | Alpine (Commitment) |
Alpine (Technical) |
Alpine (Mt Cook) |
Ewbank | Aid | Water Ice | Mixed | Boulder (Hueco) |
Length | Bolts | Trad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 270m | 0 | N | |||
| Gear - 2x60m ropes - 10 quickdraws (some extendables) - Medium and big nuts (up to °9 red) - Double rack between DMM Dragon size 0(grey) to 4(yellow) - Single rack of smaller cams (3cu blue, Dragon 00, blue) and bigger Dragons 5(blue) and 6 (grey) - Tagline to pull yourself back in if you link the abseils from top of pitch 8 to top of pitch 6 and from top of pitch 4 to top of pitch 2 - both 60m abseils. Another 60m abseil from top of pitch 2 puts you back on the ground. | |||||||||||
First ascent:
Alex Schweikart, Chris Igel, Karl 'Merry' Schimanski, Claudia Kranabitter, March/April 2013
Quality:
9 Pitches, 270m, 30 (26 Variation), mixed bolts and trad, steep granite climbing along cracks, roofs, dihedrals, faces and arets. Bolted belays.
– P1: 20m, 18/21, Trad
– P2: 30m, 25, 1 Bolt
– P3: 30m, 22, 4 bolts
– P4: 40m, 21, 3 bolts
– P5: 35m, 23/25 long reach, easier if you are tall!, 2 bolts
– P6: 35m, 27, 6 bolts
– P7: 15m, 24, 1 piton
– P8: 25m, 30 or 26 variation, 7 or 9 bolts
– P9: 20m, 25, 1 piton. Abseil down the route! Or Basejump!
Route Image:
Grade:
30
Length:
270
Bolts:
0
Natural pro:
No
Gone:
No 
Comments
A video of the routesetting and first ascent has just been released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urjQs6QbH5Q