Bustle Tower is a peak in the Cirque of the Unclimbables, Northwest Territories, Canada. The peak is on a ridge 3 kilometers to the southeast of Mount Meringue, its parent, and has an elevation of 2310 meters.
Climbing history In July of 1973, climbers Galen Rowell, Harthon Bill, and Joe Bridges completed a first ascent of Bustle Tower via its western ridge. Rowell described the peak as a "steep, pointed tower directly behind Terrace Tower" and the had previously identified the west ridge as a viable route with "ledges and plenty of cracks" to facilitate the ascent. The team ascended the majority of the peak over a period of two days using a mixture of free and aid climbing, followed by a traversal of a knife edge ridge to a false summit, then ultimately a final climb to the true summit of the tower.
Several years after the first ascent, climbers Jaques Collar, Jacques Ramouillet, and Renzo Lorenzi completed a second ascent of the peak in July of 1977 via the southeast face. That same year, a team led by Erich Lackner ascended the peak for the first time by the southeast dihedral route.
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