South Face of Mt Maitland

Snow free up the South Temple Stream, until almost at the pass into the Ahurirri.

The sidle onto the South Face is free of snow and the glacier is smaller than shown on maps.

Above the glacier is steep choss, or some ok rock, much nicer if there’s snow. A less chossy and easier route is to traverse further west to the South West where a valley and gully lead to the summit pyramid.

Easiest descent is via the East face, although theres lines of bluffs – easiest line is extreme true left (climbers right) in the valley, leading to halfway between the two scree slide climbs in the South Branch.