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\nBlake Herrington and Jason Nelson climbed three probable new routes and repeated a fourth line at Mendenhall Towers of Southeast Alaska.
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\nThe duo started up an obvious line on the highest of the seven towers. This turned out to be the previously climbed southeast ridge, on which the two may have added a 5.10+ headwall pitch.\u00a0
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\nOn day two, the pair climbed a new line on the Curtain, the broad steep wall that stretches between the main summit and the fourth tower. The Iron Curtain (IV+ 5.12a) went in eight pitches to the top of the wall, with a crux thin-hands crack through a roof that Nelson managed to onsight.
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\nThen, after a day rest, \u00a0they climbed Resisting A Rest (5.10+R) on the Curtain; their \u00a0third new route in four days was Resignation Arete (IV 5.11+) on the southern ar\u00eate of Tower 4. Eleven pitches of steep climbing \u2014 five of them 5.11 \u2014 gained the summit.\u00a0
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\nThe trip\u00a0was sponsored in part by a Mountain Fellowship grant for young climbers from the AAC.
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\nBlake Herrington \u00a0has climbed in the mountains of North America, Argentina, and New Zealand, establishing more than a dozen new alpine routes in the past four years.
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\nSource: D.MacDonald climbing
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