The southern part of the Fitzroy group (click on the photo for a much cooler large version)

Sadly after only one month of being in El Chalten Kate and I had to leave.  We sure didn’t climb much this trip due to the poor weather but that just makes us that much more hungry for the next trip!

And we can’t be to sad that we left because it means we are off to another great adventure in Venezuela.  We’ve got a month planned here of climbing on the Tepuis located in the Grand Savannah.  No updates from this trip as we will be completely out of touch will gone.  But I’ll be sure and post some pics once we return.

Till then here is a link to a really hi resolution (25mb) version of the pic above.  Check it out!  It’s way cool.

After waiting in El Chalten for close to a month for good climbing weather Kate and I were finally able to make it up to the mountains.  We didn’t set our sights to high given the last month of poor weather thus the poor route conditions.  We choose one of the smaller mountains in the Fitzroy range, Aguja de la ‘S’, but it turned out to be just the right amount of mountain for us.    Here are some pics from the climb.

Approaching can be so miserable

I can't think of many things as "FUN" as wading an icy river while it is snowing!

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