MT. COLLON (Page 84) 
 
S. face of N.W. arête.  Mr. Grant and myself 
failed to find the ordinary descent of this ridge, and 
cut straight down from the first gendarme (before 
the ridge becomes rotten) by a chimney and diffi-
cult slabs below it, keeping to the left directly down 
the face.  I understood Pierre Maitre to say that he 
had on one occasion adopted a similar route.  The 
descent took just over 2 hours snow to snow. 
 
E. ALEISTER CROWLEY.