Talk:Dom (mountain)

Misrepresentation of the difficulty of 'normal route'.
Over the last month or so, a number of IP edits have for some reason attempted to suggest that the 'normal route' on the Dom is a difficult undertaking. Whilst for anyone who has actually been on this route, it is certainly a long ascent or descent, there are numerous published guidebooks that clearly show this is just a F+/PD- route of some 6 hours up straightforward glaciated slopes from the Dom hut, of little to no technical mountaineering difficulty at all. It's not really very steep - just unbearably long. I have included quotes and citations to UK guidebooks which prove the lack of difficulty of this route, and which describe it as "something of a snow trudge". Yet for some reason these are being unjustifiably excised. I'm not sure what the motivation is for these repeated edits, but they are completely misrepresenting this wonderful mountain.

To keep them happy, I have now added a section on ascending the south ridge (Domgrat) which first requires an ascent of the Taschhorn and the Alphubel. Now that is a properly challenging undertaking!

Please use this talk page to discuss and justify any suggested changes to the description of the voie normale, before attempting further alterations in order that a proper consensus can be achieved. Nick Moyes (talk) 13:31, 4 August 2020 (UTC)