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Climbing the head-wall of the Diamond Couloir on Mount Kenya. October 2005. Photo copyright: Fred Salamin (with permission). More details here.
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[ Post a Comment ]| dug | very cool | | 
Voted 10/10 | I thought I had read somewhere that the couloir had melted out. apparently its back... | | Posted Dec 22, 2005 11:15 am |
 | | John Prater | Re: very cool | | 
Hasn't voted | Some info about recent conditions in the Diamond Couloir here. | | Posted Dec 22, 2005 6:51 pm |
| | dug | Re: very cool | |
Voted 10/10 | Thanks for the link! | | Posted Dec 22, 2005 7:35 pm |
| | ben jammin | Re: very cool | | 
Hasn't voted | I've also added some additional info and links here on the Mount Kenya page.
cheers,
Ben
| | Posted Dec 23, 2005 6:11 am |
| | ben jammin | Re: very cool | |
Hasn't voted | When the Diamond Couloir was first climbed there was a distinctive long tongue of vertical ice that connected the base of the couloir to the lower-angled upper sections. This vertical section of ice has apparently not formed again, and the steep rock is now climbed by means of some modern mixed trickery.
There general trend is still warming and melting of the glaciers, but - as can be seen from the photos - substantial ice does still form after a sufficiently wet winter season.
cheers,
Ben
| | Posted Dec 23, 2005 6:21 am |
| IdahoSummits | Incredible! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Wow! Great couloir photo. Not too dark and very crisp! | | Posted Dec 22, 2005 2:48 pm |
| Sajama | Gloomy. | | 
Voted 10/10 | What gloomy, I´m fair. Excelent photo. | | Posted Feb 27, 2006 11:08 am |
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