Photos: What Mount Slesse, site of the Flight 810 crash, looks like from the ground today. Slesse is deservedly a 50 classic in North America. The route up the NE Buttress of Slesse Mountain (aka Mount Slesse). Slesse Peak Climbing Notes. Slesse is also home to a rock climbing route that was first climbed on the East face in August of 1963 by one of the most prominent rock climbers in world history, Fred Becky. With good weather and relatively warm temperatures, the team skied up to the Mt Slesse area and camped, before attempting the line the next day. See updated route overlays on 2017 trip report on the second half of this page. Slesse’s east face, climbing with Jacob Cook (U.K.), via a six-pitch variation to the original route ( 1997, Easton-Edgar, ED2 VI 5.9 A 3). Publication Year: 2018. Slesse, to remind everyone to plan thoroughly. At this point the trail turns uphill. Just a few days after Steven climbed Slesse via the standard route, Itai (my friend from Israel) and I went up to climb it via the classic NE buttress. Mount Slesse was first climbed on August 10, 1927, by Stan Henderson, Mills Winram, and Fred Parkes, via a route starting from Slesse Creek. This is the (partially hikeable) climbers trail located on the West side of the mountain. Mount Slesse is a sharp peak that is visible from parts of Chilliwack and the Trans Canada Highway. After five trips with four partners over two seasons, I completed the second ascent and first free ascent of Mt. "It's a fantastic hike," Wolgram said. Adam Wilkie, from Burnaby, his 19-year-old son Xander, and friend Liam Ball had been looking forward to climbing the northeast buttress of the Chilliwack area mountain for some time. A climber has shared a story of a summit gone wrong at Mt. Be the first to submit your climbing note! Mt. Tom described the climb as follows: 'It's given 6b and is all on trad gear. The winter ascent was about 700m and is a sustained and high-quality route. Slesse! Vancouver Mountain Guides will take care of all the details. Consider things such as access and accommodation at the base of Slesse Peak, as well as the logistics of climbing to … The Climb Our plan was to climb Slesse over two days, bivying about ¾ of the way up the first day. You will take 2 days to ascend and descend the route. At about 4 a.m. the next morning we were off and hiking by headlamp. Roskelleys Climb NE Buttress of Mount Slesse Father and son climbing teams are inherently strong and devoted, but the Roskelley father and son team is not your average climbing team. ... Matt, and he said while it can be a challenging climb, it's well worth undertaking for those interested in the history of the crash. John Roskelley is the only American to win the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award. We were going to climb it via the bypass route, thereby eliminating the first 5 or 6 pitches, that by all accounts didn’t seem that “classic”. From the 8km mark on the Slesse FSR, continue on a footpath following an old logging road, south for 3 km. Climb Year: 2017. It is probably most famous for the North East Buttress that made it … "It's a beautiful hike, with great views of … Climb Mt. 2500ft of stellar climbing! The standard route today is the Southwest Route, which involves approximately 1,650 m (5,413 ft) of ascent, a good deal of scrambling and some sections of technical rock climbing up to class 5.6. (This photo was taken from the Memorial Plaque on the east side of Slesse on a hike in 2006). It was just a coincidence that Steven and I climbed it within just a few days of one another, despite both of us probably wanting to climb it for many years. The North East Buttress of Mt. 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