"Feli, Kate, Eric and I went in via Rummel Lake for this tall beauty! The Tower was my last Kane moderate for the 2nd edition guidebook. Five left - all difficults and hopefully all in the next two months!" — leigh-annewebster • Jul 1, 2023

"Forecast was too good to waste, solo ascent. Lots of groups at rummel lake enjoying the larches. SE ridge provides some fun slab scrambling and exposure. Can either lose elevation or climb some low 5th steps. Standard kane route down. " — ken_hercules • Sep 24, 2021

"Despite its "moderate" rating in Kane's scrambles book, I found the Tower to be more mentally challenging than neighboring Galatea and Engadine, which get the "difficult" status. The relentlessly steep ascent on slabby terrain with small rocks required constant concentration on the foot placement. It was followed by steep scrambling on the extremely loose rock near the summit. Kane mentioned that "routefinding is very simple" but we still managed to take one gully too far, which added extra 200m of elevation gain and 1.5 hours time. After such glorious warm-up session, the rest of ascent went without a glitch." — Taras • Aug 6, 2018

"Climber's Scramble: Rummel Ridge - The Tower traverse via SW ridge (attempt). 19.15km with 1,500m gain in 7:30hrs. Rummel Ridge: The usual route is snowshoeing along creek in winter. Was interested in the subject traverse and didn't want to do much bushwacking, so idea was to take a trail to Rummel Lake and ascend the ridge from there. Nice and quick trail to the lake; just a pleasant forest walk after with very short (100m?) section of bushwacking. The Tower attempt via SW ridge: The most of elevation gain on it is merely a ridgewalk, very wide, solid, no exposure. No scrambling, no helmet required for that part. Just a cakewalk, though a steep one. Was slogging up and thinking why no one has done it before. The fun begins at about 2,850-2,900m when you reach first 3 notches. Though they can be by-passed but difficulty will depend on your level of routefinding and downclimbing, anywhere between easy and difficult, elevation loss 70-150m (see map in the photos attached). N4: Stakes are increasing, so the challenge. It's either a rappel (see the photos) or very funky descent. To make it worse, if before everything was stable and solid, here the ridge is falling ..." — alexp • Sep 2, 2017

"Another Wednesday after work special. OK we left work a bit early. We got started in the warm afternoon and made reasonable time getting to Rummel Lake. From there it was a hike to get to the meadow and second lake. The scree grind began. It was tedious and it took a while. It was not so easy going down either. Once off the scree slope we walked out in the dark, which was easy as there was a good trail all the way back. I had attempted The Tower previously but got turned around by snow just before the summit. It got too slippery and the slopes were steep. This time it was in great shape and it got done." — BertB • Aug 23, 2017

"I was only 8 at the time but my father and i did it in two days, camping at the lake. It was amazing, the thing I Remember the most is how good Ichiban tastes in the mountains. We also found a working walkie -talkie" — mathias-strangemann • Jul 15, 2000

"via SW ridge until cliffs forced down-climb to valley, then up SW face / S ridge, alone. Left a register and small Kaluha bottle for next visitor, as it was seldom climbed. R. Collier called to thank me later that month." — KrisT • Oct 8, 1988