Well, I am thinking he wasn't quite at the spot to climb up. In the lower left corner of his picture, there is a big boulder with one (or is it two) vertical black mark. I think the climb up starts about there.
If he hadn't passed the seeps, he wasn't far enough.
And like everyone else, quite possibly too high. Staying lower in that area is the best, I think.
Frank, were the really skinny and tall cairns there this year? You WERE almost there, though. Maybe 15 minutes.
