Linker Durchstieg: turned round after the second pitch
Good route, good ice. Franzi wasn't right that day, physically or mentally, so we went back down.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Good route, good ice, good conditions. The route wasn’t the problem.
Franzi wasn’t in great shape that day, physically or mentally, and on ice that’s a combination where you don’t carry on. You’re hanging off two tools you have to trust, and trust isn’t something you can talk yourself into.
So we turned round after the second pitch.
Not a big deal. The icefall stays where it is, and we were back there later anyway.