On 2/10/2014 PThomson wrote:
>I might be wrong, but looking at the route description in the guide, and
>from my memories of the day, the actual route in question started
>from a semi-hanging belay a bit up from the ledge to avoid the superchoss
>(sort of like Werner Berner) and that the climbers accidently rapped past
>the belay to ledge (just like I did on Werner Berner) and subsequently
>had to free-solo unprotected up bad rock to get back on-route.
Yep, that is exactly what happened Paul. They were off-route climbing up a section of ultra-choss to reach the actual climb. |