Guide to the Walks & Climbs Around Arolla
…ectly 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.
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…ectly 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.
… “Climbed all the gendarmes, traversing high up, instead of by the usual way. This lends considerable difficulty to the climb. We took 5 hours, going slowly but without halts. 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…
…ed 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 off near the top escape would hardly be possible on either side of the ice-fall.” M. W. TRAVERS. H. C. TRAVERS. E. ALEISTER CROWLEY. August 14th, 1896