Mount Chephren

"Definitely a long day. If I were to repeat this, which I wont, Id consider rafting or a sup across the lake. We took the direct ridge variation up and the normal route down, which I would recommend. Found an easier descent line than what we took up. Excellent scrambing once you get to the cliff bands, although lots marbles on slab and ledges. South Slopes/Kain Scramble Route." — ken_hercules • Aug 18, 2024

"We had great weather, ideal conditions and a fantastic team on Mount Chephren. I am now done the Kane scrambles 2nd edition!!!! We obtained a bivy for Friday night and Kate, Jenna and I hiked in, arriving around 10pm. I hardly slept at all - I was literally waking up every 30 minutes! Josh was a random guy that I had connected with who had wanted to summit Mount Chephren. He had attempted it two times previously solo and didn't complete it. Basically, he just needed to go with the right people and the ladies and I were the right people. Views were incredible. This is a big, tall mountain and we were all excited to mark this one off the list. ." — leigh-annewebster • Aug 5, 2023

"A 4am start. The weather was perfect and the mountain was in excellent shape. Only crossed one snow patch higher up (just before final walk to summit). Got back to the car just before midnight." — BertB • Aug 29, 2019

"Day trip, 14.5 hours car to car. The approach is boring, but not too awful. When starting your ascent, stay right of the moraine. The moraine is nasty. Took the first cux well left of the fixed rope. Standard difficult scramble on good rock ..but lots of rubble/pebbles on top. Snow in gully that breaches the summit ridge. You can avoid most of it, but we appreciated the ice axes. Brought mountaineering boots and crampons, but kept our approach shoes on. Upper crux is a fun chimney. Final slog to summit was tedious. Tried the direct route to white pyramid col on the way down. Fine for descent. Good scree marred by side sloping. Not a good choice for up. The mountain is loose. Small groups and wear a helmet " — mike_rogers81 • Aug 4, 2018

"A 30 km / 14 hr slog in almost perfect weather. 4 parties started but only us and a solo guy (Dillon) from Jasper summited. Perhaps dangerous rockfall from potentially us and Dillon scared them away. We let loose a number of large rocks on the way down as well. Skirted the snow and never brought out our crampons. And the white rope was still there although backed up by newer webbing. We actually ascended just to the right on a 3 part cliff (easy) and descended the same way. Funny no one mentions it in trip reports. Probably much safer than the roped ascent (which looked fine as well although taller). Scramblers (2): Arvind, Alex" — alexjoseph • Aug 10, 2013