Ascending the South Ridge of...

dsnell - Jan 15, 2004 8:59 am - Hasn't voted

Although the South Ridge looks impassible at times due to several intimidating gendarmes, with proper route finding you should never encounter anything harder than third class. We did a variation where we traversed over onto the east face of the South Ridge and climbed directly up to the summit. This made the climb a little bit harder, maybe 4th class or so.