Southbound Again

Venture to the to the East aspect of the south ridge and you will be greeted by an abundance of corner and crack systems in generally solid (enough) rock. this route weaves a line up the prominent buttress to the lookers left of Rakiura ridge. first pitch is up splitter crack corner system to a candle stick feature that may not be there for long... once above this first feature head right up broken corners and over the gravel gully up blocky terrain to the right of it,, this will position you under a flaring chimney with a slab on its left, pick your poison and head up this which will reveal a rooflet into a 10 meter hand crack on a wall to you left, follow your nose and the corner system to top out on the ridge. descent was made by down climbing the West aspect of the ridge for 60 meters then one 60 meter rappel off slings back to the scree.