Base of Plugged Shaft
| 76 - main a b | Eislufthöhle | 5/S/E + |
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Two snow plugged dolines (76 b & c) and a narrow shaft (76a) unite in a narrow rift leading to a windy lifelining position, Draught Bitter, at the head of a 72m shaft plugged with snow. Rigging Plugged Shaft between snow and rock, pitches in 1977 were 18m to a snow platform, 12m to a ledge, then 29m to a substantial ledge, Yesterday's Terminus.
In 1979, with changed snow topography, and rigging for SRT, the drops were 11, 7, 17 and 19m to Yesterday's Terminus where a traverse out reaches a bolt for the final 13m drop onto a snow pile in a large aven chamber.