Bell Cord Couloir Climb, South Maroon Peak 2003

[phansonAce]

Hi...I enjoyed your video. Was the Bell Cord a hard climb? I'm going to climb S. Maroon this coming summer...been to Maroon Bells twice now. Bell Cord might be next.

[BushyWoodRat]

If you are familiar with climbing the Maroon Bells, Bell Cord is only incrementally more difficult than one of the standard routes. The biggest concerns is all the objective danger and Bell Cord, like so many of the "deadly Maroon" routes, has its share of fatalities. There were fatalities the year before and the year after our climb. The snow climbing itself is intermediate and not as hard as climbing something like Sky Walker (S. Arapahoe) or Dead Dog (Torreys).