Alpinfox Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 Who's done it? Beta? Here is the only description I've seen of it. From Dan&Colin's winter ascent of the NE Ridge: The first decision we had to make at that point was which way to descend. Neither of us knew the south ridge descent route, but I thought it must have to be faster than going down the way we came up. It turned out that there was certainly less snow on it, it was rock almost the whole way. And it probably was quicker overall. But we only had one 60m rope, and I think we didn’t get the route exactly right, because we had to set all our own rap stations after the first three. We ended up going right down the south side of the east face, in a total of 7 raps, and eventually connecting with a ramp of snow that we could downclimb to the glacier. That put us almost directly above our camp, but in the end it took 3 ½ hours to descend, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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