Mount Temple Winter

Japanese climbers Noboru Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Yamada and Eijiro Matsumoto made a rare winter ascent, possibly only the second, of the 1,000- metre Sphinx Face on Mount Temple in March. The guidebook description is: “Atrocious rock which provides a supreme test of one’s climbing cool.” The three top Japanese climbers drytooled the 5.9 A2 section at M6.

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