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Havachatwithhexy... 11-Jan-2005 At 12:07:05 AM Onsight

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"Yak route"!

Hexy, Hexy, Hex. "Thanks" for the "insight"...

Like I said I do recognise the difference (to a degree).

>Deep Play is a free route --- NOT the Free Route ...
That's all very well BUT the Totem Pole is still the Totem Pole.
And Everest is still Everest. And Hillary and Tenzing were still the first to climb it. And what’s even more amazing is that to this very day Hillary and Tenzing still remain the first to climb it (and get down alive again at the very least).

Don't think anyone called the South Col route a "Yak Route" at the time did they?
Anyway, having been on both the Tote free original and the variant - oops, sorry, "Deep Play" - I can tell you there's not much, if anything, in it. And as such I think your SW Face route analogy is a bit off... I recently started reading "Chris Bonington’s Everest" (a great read BTW) and think that his SW Face route would be better compared to the North East Ridge route in this case, a route Bonington describes thus:

"Unclimbed, obvious, long and elegant as a route, it was a magnificent virgin line, the only route left for a new route on Everest. Thus it remains."

And Hex, that route is (in)famous because? (No books now).

Yes, I know Hex, :P