This image shows the whole of the upper SW cirque, where both the old and the new route start, marked in blue resp. red. Beware - the lower 70 m of altitude of the access to the newer route (SW ridge) are the worst ever gravel jumping I have made. Blocks of 1-4m size with mostly nothing in between have to be "walked" over. This bone-breaking path - dangerous especially when wet or under snow - I've called, for obvious reasons, "Rent a Helicopter".
You can look here and here for images from the 1st flat point on the ridge, about 50m above the beginning, looking up resp. down.
reinhard2 - Sep 26, 2007 1:16 pm - Hasn't voted
WarningThis image shows the whole of the upper SW cirque, where both the old and the new route start, marked in blue resp. red. Beware - the lower 70 m of altitude of the access to the newer route (SW ridge) are the worst ever gravel jumping I have made. Blocks of 1-4m size with mostly nothing in between have to be "walked" over. This bone-breaking path - dangerous especially when wet or under snow - I've called, for obvious reasons, "Rent a Helicopter".
You can look here and here for images from the 1st flat point on the ridge, about 50m above the beginning, looking up resp. down.