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\n\u00a0Alaskan spring offers this year\u00a0lots of new important itineraries completed\u00a0 by mostly American and British team. So Gavin Peak (a British based in Chamonix) and James Clapham invented two new routes in Denali area. After warming up on the awesome steep couloir of Shaken, not Stirred on the south face of the Mooses Tooth, they headed over to Peak 11,300 for an attempt at the first ascent of the\u00a0 east face.
\nThe\u00a0initial attempt on a line on the right side of the face was ended when the blobs of white spied from the glacier stuck\u00a0to an 80-degree slab turned out to be powder, not ice.
\nSo\u00a0they \u00a0turned\u00a0their \u00a0attention to the obvious central couloir that falls directly from the summit, with the cost of accepting the objective danger of the line (which is overhung by a serac).\u00a0 The pair \u00a0climbed most of\u00a0the couloir, which\u00a0they \u00a0named Night of the Raging Goose (V WI5 1500 meters\u00a0), at night to minimize the risk, passing through a crux section of 10m of vertical ice in the narrows halfway up the wall.
\nAfter spending a week sitting out a storm\u00a0and\u00a0waiting for everything to settle,\u00a0they turned\u00a0their \u00a0attention to the north face of Mt Church. The first ascent of the face\u00a0was made by a Japanese team last year. After deciding against the deep chimney line that later gave Jon Bracey and Matt Helliker For Whom The Bell Tolls,\u00a0they\u00a0\u00a0elected to get on the central line of the face, to the left of the Japanese route, Memorial Gate.
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\nAmazing Grace (V AI4 1200 meters ) gave good quality alpine ice in the narrows, which they simulclimbed, making fast progress to\u00a0high on the\u00a0face. The 65 degree snow of the upper face proved hideously loose and unconsolidated, with one particularly funky pitch being christened The Burrows. After\u00a0the two British \u00a0topped out the face,\u00a0they started up the east ridge towards the summit. This\u00a0had some very delicate cornicing, which was proved when\u00a0James took an unscheduled ride down the north face after a large section of the cornice collapsed.
\nThankfully, nothing more serious than a bruised leg and\u00a0coccyx resulted, but\u00a0they were forced to bivvy near the summit nonetheless. They picked\u00a0their \u00a0way down the much safer north ridge the next day,\u00a0eventually hitting\u00a0the camp in the Gorge after nearly 24 hours without\u00a0food or water.\u00a0
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