| So they turned their attentions to climbing a neighbouring couloir which they completed in eight hours the following day. |
| Bruce and the Gurkhas were below the rib, and could only see up the couloir. |
| But at its narrowest the couloir is about two ski lengths wide. |
| We need crampons and ice axes for the climb, but only use our rope to exit the top notch of the couloir. |
| Just below him lay the longest ice-slope, or couloir, he had hitherto encountered. |
| We reached the rocks to the right of the couloir and climbed them for some distance. |
