"A nice outing. I found it a little annoying and more sloggy than expected getting to the col. Moderate enjoyable scrambling up Niblock and enjoyable difficult scrambling on Whyte. Glad we opted for the alternate descent, it's always nice to make it a loop! Once back on the teahouse trail, we had to throw some elbows to get back to the car in decent time." — hollywilliams • Jun 4, 2023

"Mount Whyte attempt. I wanted to climb both Whyte and Niblock but unexpected overnight snow above 2900m made the route up Whyte essentially impossible. Since Niblock is south facing and the route is easy the snow wasn't an issue. Great views of Victoria, Lefroy and Temple. I hope to return to do Whyte and Saint Piran next year" — yuri • Aug 18, 2021

"I don't recommend the optional descent route from Mt. Whyte to Plain of Six Glaciers Trail. It took me forever. The descent involves lots of zigzagging on coarse rock to avoid cliff bands and steep slabs, and further down lots of precarious balancing on downsloping slabs. At the end, I got cliffed out literally 10m from the Trail and spent perhaps half an hour to find a safe way down. " — Taras • Aug 14, 2021

"Feli came by my place at six and then we picked up Ron in Canmore at 7. LL parking had literally just filled up lakeshore parking when we arrived at 7:50 a.m., so we parked at the Continental Divide lot and walked up from there. All three of us went up to the Niblock-Whyte col together, then Feli and I went to Whyte and Ron went up Niblock. We took a moment to figure out how to gain the ridge at the beginning, then made our way gradually up to the summit. Kane says 35 minutes... I disagree. Maybe if you're a mountain goat lol. Anyways, we got some crap weather coming in, got some rain, but made our way back to the base of Whyte, where we ate lunch and got graupel. Yay. The sun came out again and we burned up Niblock, which I had done three years ago with Stephan. We met two young guys on the way down as they were coming up, then heading downhill to the Lake Agnes teahouse where Ron was waiting for us. The rest was fine! It could have been warmer and nicer out... but I at least got a new Kane peak, bring the total to 119... wish it had been a better season so far. I only have six new ones and three repeats ..." — leigh-annewebster • Jul 30, 2019

"As part of the Little Beehive - St Piran - Niblock - Whyte - Devil's Thumb - Beehive 2000m elevation 26km 9 hrs. A bit of a slog. Met Thomas from Frankfurt on summit and we decided to do Whyte together. Some overnight snow and cool air blowing up from glaciers. Really nice summit ridge. Approach up at waterfall is particularly prone to dangerous rockfall if someone is above. Helmets for sure. Scramblers (1): Alex" — alexjoseph • Jul 21, 2018

"Traversed over from Mt Saint Piran, which took more route finding than expected, including navigating around some tricky rock bands/steep sections to arrive at the cliff bands that lead up to the col. The ridge of the col is really beautiful and the scrambley bit up the ridge to the summit is interesting and fun with small portions of exposure. Intended to traverse the ridge of the col up to Mt Whyte but while on the ridge a huge thunderstorm that rolled in forced us to head back down to Lake Agnes. " — cfree • Aug 14, 2016

"My first new peak after recovering from my aneurysm. Stephan and I met Al Kane coming down from the col and chatted for a few minutes. Going through the cliff bands was a little bit tricky." — leigh-annewebster • Jul 29, 2016

"CSMC trip. 5-peak traverse: Little Beehive - St. Piran - Niblock - Whyte. The group decided to skip Devil's Thumb and descend to the Plain of 6 Glaciers directly. Was a bad decision which added a lot in distance. " — alexp • Jul 18, 2015

"Part of 5 Peak traverse: Little Beehive, Mt Saint Piran, Mt Niblock, Mt Whyte and Devil's Thumb. Was able to do first 3, but on a ridge between Niblock and Whyte a storm came. Had to turn back. Didn't want to loose elevation between Piran and Niblock and did a traverse there. Was slow, no trail (though there were some man's footsteps), spent more time than going down and up again. Will have to come back and finish the business with Whyte and the Thumb." — alexp • Aug 24, 2014