[MCR] Fay

Subject: [MCR] Fay
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:20:42 -0600
Darek Glowacki and I had a group in the Neil Colgan area Aug 14-16. Up the Perren, Fay via the centre ice bulge and west ridge, down the Schiesser.

Good travel on the glacier, most problem crevasses are visible and avoidable. Good bridge over the schrund on the centre ice bulge route. The west ridge schrund seems impassable on the normal line (shown in Selected Alpine Climbs), we went up the ice face to the west (right) of this and the schrund was bridged well there. The rubbly peaklet you have to traverse over to climb the west ridge is no different than the climbing on the rest of the route.

The backside descent still looked doable.

Mark Klassen
Mountain Guide