Me with Mt. Bowlen in the just-after-6am first light...
Starting up the hard snow towards the ridge.
Gearing up for some techincal climbing! (photo courtesy Wil)
Will and Paul tied in after the first pitch of climbing on super awful rock... at least the view was good.
Coming up pitch two (photo courtesy Wil)
Crumble, crumble... (photo courtesy Wil)
After two pitches to attain the ridge, looking ahead there was lots of hard snow and ice on steep crumbly rock, not to mention a dodgy cornice to deal with, so we made the decision to abort.
Here's a shot of a guy climbing another snow route on Fay's face... he just got over the 'schrund
Looking back across the glacier towards the hut.
Don't slip off the glacier!
Looking back, we were on the flat platform about 1/3 the way up on the lefthand ridge
Some climbers on the west ridge route... we'll try that tomorrow!
