Great Video!, just wondering what you rapped off of High peak using? (Piton, Tat around a rock etc, nut?) Also did you need to rope up crossing the crow?. More beta for the descent would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hey there was tat up there, but I always take fresh 6mm chord for that purpose. We didn't go onto the Crow as we didn't take ice gear so we climbed up middle peak then down to low peak which avoids it. Middle peak is very chossy though. If you did cross the crow, I don't see the need to rope up as your just traversing a small uncrevassed bit, however always prudent if you already have the rope on you.
Were you on the Otira Face on Saturday? Did you undergo a really bad rockfall at about 1045 that split one of your helmets and left the other with a gashed hand/ forearm? Did at least one of you scream quite a lot? If so then it was you we heard! We (= me and Philip Catton) went back to Arthur's Pass and DOC scrambled a helicopter for you... Glad to hear you were OK. Pity we couldn't establish that at the time--we did a lot of shouting but couldn't make contact with you.
Yes that was us. I ended up with a cut hand and one of our party got hit with a rock and dented the helmet. It was a scary situation but we managed to continue and finish the route. We saw the helicopter and were not sure who they were looking for, at one point they flew over us very close but when we contacted SAR afterwards they said that they didn't see us. Thanks for reacting the way you did, and for having our back, even though it turned out that we were fine in the end. It could have very much been a different story.
@@keaoraproductions6713 We are very glad you were okay. At the time we were pretty sure we'd just heard a fatality. That was a LOT of rockfall, and a pretty nerve-shredding scream!
Nice work - looks a bit intense in sections!
Great Video!, just wondering what you rapped off of High peak using? (Piton, Tat around a rock etc, nut?) Also did you need to rope up crossing the crow?. More beta for the descent would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hey there was tat up there, but I always take fresh 6mm chord for that purpose. We didn't go onto the Crow as we didn't take ice gear so we climbed up middle peak then down to low peak which avoids it. Middle peak is very chossy though.
If you did cross the crow, I don't see the need to rope up as your just traversing a small uncrevassed bit, however always prudent if you already have the rope on you.
Were you on the Otira Face on Saturday? Did you undergo a really bad rockfall at about 1045 that split one of your helmets and left the other with a gashed hand/ forearm? Did at least one of you scream quite a lot? If so then it was you we heard! We (= me and Philip Catton) went back to Arthur's Pass and DOC scrambled a helicopter for you... Glad to hear you were OK. Pity we couldn't establish that at the time--we did a lot of shouting but couldn't make contact with you.
Yes that was us. I ended up with a cut hand and one of our party got hit with a rock and dented the helmet. It was a scary situation but we managed to continue and finish the route. We saw the helicopter and were not sure who they were looking for, at one point they flew over us very close but when we contacted SAR afterwards they said that they didn't see us.
Thanks for reacting the way you did, and for having our back, even though it turned out that we were fine in the end. It could have very much been a different story.
@@keaoraproductions6713 We are very glad you were okay. At the time we were pretty sure we'd just heard a fatality. That was a LOT of rockfall, and a pretty nerve-shredding scream!
(PS Did you hear us shouting? We were shouting "Hello?" and "Are you OK?" as loud as we could. If you shouted back, we never heard you at all.)
@@sophie-grace9143 I'm afraid we didn't hear anything.
@@keaoraproductions6713 wow! Well, it's a big corrie!
(If you have corries in NZ :-) )
Did you come down the same way ?
Hey, no we came down the Otira slide, which had no snow on at the time.
@@keaoraproductions6713 thank you