Profiles

For decades, climbers have travelled from far away to try this amazing wall of dead vertical ice

“We were just a couple of twenty-year-olds from Squamish. We could do this, Couldn’t we? The Nose was one of the biggest climbs of its type in the world in 1969 and at 31 pitches, two or three times longer than the longest climb we had done. It was big, psychologically and physically”

There have been some big sends this year, from long classics to short test-pieces