Guide to the Walks & Climbs Around Arolla

WALKS AND CLIMBS AROUND AROLLA AIGUILLES ROUGES (Pages 49-50) S. Peak. “Climbed all the gendarmes, traversing high up, instead of by the usual way. This lends considerable difficulty to the climb. We took 5 hours, going slowly but without halts. Mr. Slings- by’s “the last” was in our case about the 5th of some dozen and a half or more. We descended it by undercut rocks N.E. face instead of his 18 ft. crack. The greatest difficulties as below this, so that the first party must have kept low down to reach the S. col “soon after.” Times: (snow bad); N. col 9 p.m. Slept here and so to Arolla 10.0 a.m. E.A. CROWLEY, S.M.C. (with Messers. M. W. and A. C. Travers).