Crux pitch of NE Face, Pingora. Photo credit: from a trip report by SuperTopo user PellucidWombat (http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Pingora-NE-Face/t12248n.html) Based on the below link to an MP.com discussion, the left-most crack is the 5.8 wide option; the thinner middle crack is the 5.9 option that eventually (i.e., mid-pitch) merges with the left-most crack. Over two days last July, 5 out of 6 parties instead went up the longer crack on the right which seems to be an independent and undocumented variation - at least 1 party unknowingly did so (perhaps all 5); I don't know how it compares to the other two options, but I thought it had some 5.10a/b move or two in it. Perhaps others who have done it and another option will chime in on how they compare to each other. Link to MP.com discussion: http://www.mountainproject.com/v/crux-pitch-of-ne-face-pingora-which-way/109395485#a

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P10 - more of a flaring open book shape. Tough 5.6

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Bill Lawry

Aug 26, 2014

“Crux pitch of NE Face, Pingora. Photo credit: from a trip report by SuperTopo user PellucidWombat (http://www.supertopo.com/tr/Pingora-NE-Face/t12248n.html)

Based on the below link to an MP.com discussion, the left-most crack is the 5.8 wide option; the thinner middle crack is the 5.9 option that eventually (i.e., mid-pitch) merges with the left-most crack.

Over two days last July, 5 out of 6 parties instead went up the longer crack on the right which seems to be an independent and undocumented variation - at least 1 party unknowingly did so (perhaps all 5); I don't know how it compares to the other two options, but I thought it had some 5.10a/b move or two in it. Perhaps others who have done it and another option will chime in on how they compare to each other.

Link to MP.com discussion: http://www.mountainproject.com/v/crux-pitch-of-ne-face-pingora-which-way/109395485#a_109397003”

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