Tim Neill Guiding

Heading out to the left edge..

A cool 2 days with Keith up in the Observatory Gully… Friday saw us looking for something icy…we had a few ideas but ended up on the Left Edge…an old classic just by Point Five…we climbed back down the Tower Gully collecting the Direct Start to the Echo Traverse on the way….a brilliant blue ice pillar that always seems to be in..

Left Edge..

Heading out onto final pitch to the girdle ledge…

Direct start to Echo Traverse…

Saturday we climbed The Brass Monkey….this will be a mega classic route when it gets more widely known in the next guidebook….

Supposed crux bit on The Brass Monkey…

Yarding hard on chock stones is the main theme on Brass Monkey..

Mostly well protected, lots of hard climbing and a real strong line…probably best done when icy to lock in the crucial chock stones…it finishes on Tower Ridge, where we sorted a hasty abseil back to our rucksacs in the rapidly deteriorating weather. Get it done everyone!

Cool ever widening chimney pitch to top out….

Sustained classic corner udging…

Abbing back down from Tower Ridge…the mega impressive Echo Wall just to the left of Brass Monkey..

The 6 minute tree was a welcome site on the way home…

The 6 minute tree….