[MCR] Mt Tsar

Hello everyone, 
 
 A group of us spent five days in the Tsar area last
week. We managed to climb Mt Tsar in excellent conditions, one day before
the snow storm of July 24. 
 
From a camp near the Tsar-Somervell pass we ascended the
normal route, going up snow/glacier to join the north ridge, then across
the upper glacier to the NW ridge. In the morning, travel was fast on a
thin M-F crust. Once on the north ridge we found mostly dry rock, with
very few snow patches or wet spots to contend with. We crossed on to the
upper glacier at 3030m, down climbing about 60m, to get on the ice. The
upper glacier was well covered which made for easy route finding around
some obvious crevasses. From there we followed the snowy upper ridge to
the top.       
 
The storm dumped about 
5 cms of wet snow on our camp, but it melted rapidly
the next day, and by the time we left the area on Fri afternoon most of
the new snow was gone. The tops of the peaks, above 2700m, were still
plastered in white. It was a very wintery scene on the flight
out.    
 
Helen Sovdat  MG 
Ryan Titchener  ARG, AHG

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