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, 02/1908
2: West Ridge of Fastness Peak, III, 2, C. Marshall, P. Powell, E. Riddiford, J. Sage, 12/1945
3: South Ridge of Fastness Peak, III, 2, G. Matterson, D. Mee, D. Tarrant, 01/1959
4: North Buttress, II, 3, D. Irvin, P. Robinson, R. Rodda, 01/1956
5: Northwest Ridge, III, 2, H. Hodgkinson, J. Murrell, G. Robertson, S. Turner, 03/1913
  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, 01/2009
10: West Face, III, 3, J. Clarke, A. Graham, B. Head, 11/1909
11: Southwest Ridge, III, 3+, D. Dick, D. Lewis, H. Stevenson, 12/1936
12: Popes Nose from the Bonar Glacier, II, 2, D. Dick, D. Lewis, H. Stevenson, 12/1936

Sources

• “Tititea Aspiring and the Otago Alps,” Neil Sloan and Nick Shearer, NZAC Guidebooks, 2024

• “The Mount Aspiring Region, A Guide for Mountaineers,” Allen Uren and John Cocks, NZAC Guidebooks, 2009

• ClimbNZ.org

Updates

Oct 1, 2024: First version published.

Feb 9, 2026: Minor graphic design and caption update.