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Pickelhaube

Type
Altitude
2265m
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‘Is it a new sauce invented to make rabbit stew more palatable?’ mused Mr Explorer Charlie Douglas back in 1891. Ingenious but wrong, the name in fact refers to a distinctively shaped German helmet.

Lat/lon
POINT (168.832607 -44.320799)
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Routes

Reference Title Grade Length Pro Quality Operations
North East Ridge. II,2
0
North West Ridge. II,2
0
South East Ridge II,2
0
Comments
jmthornton

It appears to me that the first ascent party didn't climb the last couple of hundred metres of the North East ridge but in fact sidled across the east face at about the 1900m contour to the SE ridge which they then climbed to the Summit.

Sun, 02/03/2014 - 21:49 Permalink
Attribution
Allen Uren & John Cocks
UUID
 
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