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.