Hard British New Routes in Alaska

Climbing.com reports that Jon Bracy and Matt Helliker have had a successful two weeks in the Ruth Gorge in Alaska. Stable weather and good ice gave them the chance to put up two hard new routes in the first weeks of May.

The first of these on the North face of Mount Grosvenor involved a 20 hour round trip and resulted in Meltdown (1,300m, ED3, V, M6). Seven days later the pair climbed the North face of Mount Church giving For Whom the Bell Tolls (1,150m, ED2 V WI6/mixed).

In between climbing these two routes they also summated Mt Barrill via the Japanese Couloir whilst looking for a team of climbers that were unaccounted for. This team was later found to have descended safely to the glacier via the northwest face.

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