by stu » Wed 03 Sep, 2008 7:51 am
One of my good mates is a pretty accomplished alpinist (Garry Philips - see last Rock issue, south face of Mt. Douglas in NZ - first ascent with another mate, Simon Young). He has done ice & mixed climbing at various locations around the world (as well as climbing around grade 33 on rock) - he would be a good contact for you; not sure if he has done any of the mixed routes near Stacks (I think out east of the Denison Crags somewhere?). I would say with our fairly mild winters these days, mixed would be an under statement - you'd probably be dry tooling the whole way! I know someone else who did some routes up there some years ago when the ice was better, not sure about anyone in recent history up that way tho. There are certainly people out there in the Tassie wilds doing this sort of thing to be sure, you wouldn't be the first. Try contacting Garry for more info - (i'll forward his email privately) - I'm sure he won't mind.
Stu.
p.s. thanks Nik, forgot about the 'Spammers'. Cheers.
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stu on Wed 03 Sep, 2008 8:11 am, edited 2 times in total.