The West Buttress Route

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    The dashed line drawn on the topographic map above shows our route to 17,200'. As we made progress, I had penciled in the camps small filled triangles, labeling each camp CAMP#1" through CAMP#5. After our first ascent of each leg (remember we actually climbed each leg to CAMP#5 twice), I recorded our ascent and decent times. Our the times were as follows:

Camp#             Ascent                 Descent
    1-2             5hrs 45min             2hrs 30min
    2-3             5hrs 30min             1hrs 45min
    3-4             7hrs 45min             2hrs 30min
    4-5             9hrs 45min             3hrs 30min