Forbes Arête

Words and Pictures by Ollie Grady

January 17^th, 2019

In the summer of 2017, a Newcastle University Mountaineering Club party comprising Ollie Grady, Chris Haworth and Patrick Arty climbed the Forbes Arête.

Unfortunately they had a bit of an epic involving enightment, a bit of a scare and apparently and a touch of frostnip....

‘Amazing route although could have been in better condition. Very little snow made the last section harder than it should have been and caused us to have to abseil the whole descent with about 17 abseils taking up a lot of time and leading to an unplanned bivi. Return trip over the glacier was interesting due to it been heavily crevassed. Looking forward to doing it in better conditions...’