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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 1
…alts. Mr. Slings- by’s “the last” was in our case about the 5th of some dozen and a half or more. We descended it by undercut rocks N.E. face instead of his 18 ft. crack. The greatest difficulties as below this, so that the first party must have kept low down to reach the S. col “soon after.” Times: (snow bad); N. col 9 p.m. Slept here and so to Arolla 10.0 a.m. E.A. CROWLEY, S.M.C. (with Messers. M. W. and A. C. Travers).
1908 · PDF PAGE 2
…e party followed. Above this point the climbing be- came difficult, and one very steep wall had to be climbed by means of a crack in its face. Close to the top we were again brought to a standstill by a line of cliffs and were obliged to turn to the left along the line of a crevasse filled with debris. Passing under an enormous arch of ice and be- low some immense serrac, we reached the left side of the glacier at a point from which a series of snow bridges brought us to the snowfield above. The climb occupied 6 ½ hours. Should a party be cut o…