Orange dihedral pitch on East Buttress, Mt Whitney. Photo courtesy Bill McConachie

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Orange dihedral pitch on East Buttress, Mt Whitney. Photo courtesy Bill McConachie

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Descending the mountaineers route.

final easy pitches to the summit

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Jan 14, 2008

“Orange dihedral pitch on East Buttress, Mt Whitney. Photo courtesy Bill McConachie”

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An incredible line. This perspective is hard to imagine when you're looking up at the mountain, but I hope this photo shows how it isn't nearly as steep / scary when you're up there.

Mt. Whitney's East Buttress, just below the Peewee. Photo by Tauru.

Roping up at the start of the route.

Sunrise from the E Buttress route

Topo aspect from Iceberg Lake showing 5.8 alternate start for the first pitch. Highly recommend this variation. Climbers can be seen on first pitch of regular 5.6 start.

Fun shot of Peewee on the East Buttress.

Woah

John Fujii pauses on the crest. Iceberg Lake below.

Kevin on the East Buttress. December 2016

Brett leads the 5.7 piton-protected variation above the 2nd Tower.

Mt Whitney at sunrise. East Buttress is clearly visible on the right side of the picture.

Renee finishing up the crux moves on pitch 7.

Stay along the cliffs to the right on the descent of the Mountaineers Route and aim for the notch (shown here) to the right of Piss Rock to avoid lower gully. Cairned all the way.

second 5.7 section

Having some fun on blocks, pre-summit, post roped up

Climbing past peewee block on Pitch 6. We went right of the block; easy climbing

remnants of the ice falls

Jon coming up on pitch 3

Straight down the buttress. Camp at Icerberg Lake below.

The Peewee on the East Buttress.

On the approach to the East Buttress.

Iceberg Lake campsite, with Whitney in background

Looking down pitch 1 to John Fujii

A view of the summit. There are many options here, but good route finding is needed to keep it 5.7. Many 5.8- 5.10 alternates...

1st pitch

Mike Morley and Jeff Crow atop Mt. Whitney after summiting the East Buttress on a bluebird day in late May, 2002.

Mountaineers Route descent (barely any snow left in May!)

Duke soloing high on the East Buttress.

rippled slab is the first 5.7 section

Kevin on the East Buttress. December 2016

Around the 4th pitch. Fun slabs ahead.

2 climbers on top of the 2nd tower

Looking up at the start of pitch 4.

Jonny pulls down on the right side of the Peewee. Photo by Brett Barrett.

looking up at the E Buttress

Pinnacle Ridge

Whitney

looking over to Russell

Seth on lead.

flakes around P4/5

Jeff Crow approaches the belay on one of the upper pitches of Whitney's East Buttress in late May, 2002.

John Fujii at the end of pitch 2.

Buttress

Looking down the route from the summit. The class 3 talus is directly below and right of the arete.

Melody Wong having fun on the crest.

Looking up to Pee Wee.

Descending the mountaineers route.

Orange dihedral pitch on East Buttress, Mt Whitney. Photo courtesy Bill McConachie

final easy pitches to the summit

Following P1

another view of Pinnacle Ridge

view down to Iceberg

P1 (regular start)

looking down the Peewee on P6

bottom of the Peewee

easy blocky climbing on P4

top of the 20' tower (marked on Supertopo)

Chris Astraus at the notch at the top of the 2nd pitch.