Tititea Mount Aspiring - West Face

The only 3,000m peak outside of the Aoraki region, Tititea stands head and shoulders above most other peaks in the Otago Alps. With four distinct faces and a striking pyramid shape (when seen from a certain angle), it is sometimes dubbed the Matterhorn of the south - though with significantly better rock than its Swiss counterpart.

This is one of 5 posters of Tititea, showing all of its faces during a late summer sunrise. You can find the other ones there:

• South Face I (from a different angle, showing also the massive Southeast face of the Popes Nose, under the Bonar glacier)
• South Face II (from a different angle, showing a lot of the West Face as well)
  
• North Face (a wealth of wild rock routes)
• Northeast Face (very rarely climbed, a massive shield of almost impossible
  

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Route List

1: Glacier Dome from the Upper Volta Glacier, III, 2, J. Clarke, A. Graham, E. Teichelmann, Feb. 1908
2: West Ridge of Fastness Peak, III, 2, C. Marshall, P. Powell, E. Riddiford, J. Sage, Dec. 1945
3: South Ridge of Fastness Peak, III, 2, G. Matterson, D. Mee, D. Tarrant, Jan. 1959
4: North Buttress, II, 3, D. Irvin, P. Robinson, R. Rodda, Jan. 1956
5: Northwest Ridge, III, 2, H. Hodgkinson, J. Murrell, G. Robertson, S. Turner, Mar. 1913
     5a: Full Northwest Ridge
     5b: Shorter Northwest Ridge
     5c: Kangaroo Patch
     5d: The Ramp
6: West Couloir, III, 3
7: Cereal Pillar, III, M4, L. Clay, G. Cotter, 2010
8: Forgotten Couloir, III, 3
9: Pride of the Hotaka, III, 5 M5, M. Kohara, T. Tani, Jan. 2009
10: West Face, III, 3, J. Clarke, A. Graham, B. Head, Nov. 1909
11: Southwest Ridge, III, 3+, D. Dick, D. Lewis, H. Stevenson, Dec. 1936
12: Popes Nose from the Bonar Glacier, II, 2, D. Dick, D. Lewis, H. Stevenson, Dec. 1936