Category: Ice Climbing
Ice (and mixed) climbing. The type of climbing normally done with axes and crampons.
After a day honing our skiing technique at the local ski area we headed high as the temperatures were rising in the valley.
Saturday and Sunday saw us in the Rjukan lower gorge, and surprisingly virtually on our own.
Last week saw Anna, Ian, Sally and Steve camped in Rjukan.
Somehow I managed to lose my crampons on the way down from Murchisons yesterday.
Check out the ice on Laetitia's jacket. Then take a look at the quickdraw; frozen solid!
We've been after Whiteman Falls for a few years, but have been thwarted by one reason or another, but today, at last, we 'sent it'!
Tired after yesterday's efforts, Pete let me take the lead on Sunshine in the Ghost.
There's a lot of snow in the Ghost this year!
We headed up the David Thomson Highway to check out 'Nothing But the Breast', but as our luck would have it, there was a party already on the route. Knowing the misery of climbing behind others and being bombarded by falling ice we choose to move on and try 'The End of the Line'.
