Wednesday 3rd March, Smoking The White Owl

A variety of options for starting. This ice wall had a leader fall off as I watched - and the ice screw ripped out too!

Later as I watched, the second fell off too, and left his 2 axes alone high up on the ice!

Jack and Pulvi on a big ledge at the penultimate belay

Jack at the top of the final headwall

Pulvi on the final ice. There were 6 leader teams on this headwall at the same time!

My first day with Pulvi and Jack. We headed for Smoking the White Owl for a short walk in and shorter walk out. It was an incredibly busy day on the ice, culminating in 6 leader teams on the final headwall at one point. Too busy, but everybody was careful with the flying ice and nobody got hurt.