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The narrow detached tongue of snow (in shadow at the top of the photo) is the only way to cross the moat onto the rock of the North Buttress. To climb that narrow tongue of snow however, requires crossing the narrow rotten snow bridge that leads from the foreground to the steep corniced snow behind. Oh, and although we can't see it in the photo, just below the snow bridge and the corniced snow behind there's a drop of several metres onto the rocks at the bottom of the moat.