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Page 1 of 11908 · PDF PAGE 3
MT. COLLON (Page 84) S. face of N.W. arête. Mr. Grant and myself failed to find the ordinary descent of this ridge, and cut straight down from the first gendarme (before the ridge becomes rotten) by a chimney and diffi- cult slabs below it, keeping to the left directly down the face. I understood Pierre Maitre to say that he had on one occasion adopted a similar route. The descent took just over 2 hours snow to snow. E. ALEISTER CROWLEY.
1908 · PDF PAGE 2
…ty. At about the level of the top of the rock rib which divides the N. and S. branches of the glacier we found our way barred by an undercut ice cliff, which at its only assailable point rose some 14 (20) feet above the detached serrac on which we were standing. Standing on this serrac and leaning over the inter- vening crevasse the second man was able to sup- port the leader, who, standing on his shoulders, cut hand and footholds in the wall above. With some assistance from behind with an axe the lead- er arrived at the top of the wall and the…