North America, United States, Washington?Cascade Mountains, Mount Torment, Southwest Face

Publication Year: 1989.

Mount Torment, Southwest Face. On July 24, Sue Harrington and I completed a route on the right side of the face just left of a prominent gully that drops from the south ridge. The best and hardest pitch was along a solid right-facing comer on clean rock. The day was perfect but the rock was not.

Alan Kearney