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Steven crosses an outlet stream from the glacier.Coming up the lower glacier - Woolley Tarn is glass behind us and Engelhard is catching morning alpine glow at upper right.It looks like you could just keep going straight up the Woolley Glacier, but dangerous seracs threaten any route that doesn't bail into the first couloir to our right.Now the two couloirs are visible, with the rock face between them.The low-angle first couloir is straight ahead, but again we have to detour (climber's right) to get there. Note the rock fall on the right hand side of it?Crevasse avoidance. The terrain is a lot more complex than it appears from a distance.Crevasses.Crevasses.Crevasses.Ben negotiates the heavily crevassed lower glacier leading to the first gully on Diadem Peak.Coming up the first couloir.Ben in the couloir.A great view of the narrow rock / snow ramp that gives access off the snow slope to the rock traverse.Steven and Ben follow me across the snow slope to the rising, narrow gully that gives access to the ledge traverse.Looking up the ledge traverse to the just visible second couloir and the Woolley Glacier to it's left, from the top of the narrow access gully.A cairn at the top of the narrow gully reassures us that we're on route. Someone's route at least!Steven and Ben come off the snow patch and up the narrow gully.Starting the ledge traverse.Mount Woolley looms over it's lower glacier.Looking down the 2nd couloir.
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