A Sunday outing on the Alpspitze north face
Six pitches to round off the long day on the Tajakopf. It didn't need to be more than that.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
The day before we’d been out twelve hours on the Tajakopf. Our ambition that Sunday was correspondingly modest.
Six pitches on the Alpspitze north face, grade 5, well protected. We had Friends with us but barely used them — once or twice, no more.
Exactly right. Not every route has to be a project, and after a long day a short good one is worth more than a long mediocre one.
Papa didn’t argue either.