Ascents in Aoraki / Mount Cook as various tick types

12 hours climbing time (10 x 30-60m pitches). Ben and I had a great time on this route despite the occasional mossy/chossy/run-out pitch. Taking the time to make solid anchors and gardening to look for gear rather than running it out meant the climb became a long day and we did the final pitch and 30 metre rappel in the dark. A Kea attacking our ropes while Ben was on lead added some excitement to the climb.

The sit moves add quite alot to the original boulder excellent line

Pretty happy to send this one, first 5 moves are pretty cool mix of nice slopers and sharp crimps

simul practice

Tried this on top rope a couple years back. Good to get the red point. Techy climbing

Good day out but its far from a 3 star route. Mostly choss bashing up the ridge. Stellar views though

Spent ages trying to find the start. Ended up climbing a pitch 20m right of the arete. After that moved left onto the arete proper and did another pitch up the small corner on the arete (loose undercut block at the crux). 14 hours as a 3 and roped up for most of it

Nice tall arete beautiful

May have been done before, but I could find no record of it. A one move wonder, but worth doing if in the area.

Pretty bloody fierce without warming up properly!

Repeat for the cheeky video.

Had the beta dialed from the last session. Went down pretty quickly this time. Really happy about how this one turned out.

So good had to do it twice.

Loved this one. Suits my style.

Best problem in the area.

Committing finish on amazing finger locks.

Beautiful Font-like boulder problem. Would be a polished classic in the Forest. So good!

Rock quality far from perfect. Lots of hard moves for the grade.

Somewhat scary rocking onto arête and slab. Might have bailed if not for the dozen of onlookers cheering me on.

Set up top roping for children aged 2-5. Also climbed with 3 year old.

Repeat