Unfortunately we found a lot of old fixed ropes left behind by previous expeditions on the east face (not just on the south African route) and we brought down as much as we could (a few hundred meters of ropes) . It’s a pity climbers trashed the wall like this. Most of the ropes we [...]

The south African route has some amazing free climbing pitches. Mostly following clean cracks and dihedrals in super compact granite. It felt like a privilege for us to be climbing them. Some of the harder pitches include a very pumpy fingertip enduro corner, and also an amazing face climbing boulder problem with a spectacular sequence [...]

Out of the 13 days we spent on the wall, only 2 days were spent totally locked up in our portaledges because of bad weather. No good weather days either but other days we could always at least get one pitch in. So you can imagine we were hoping to get more portaledge surfing and [...]

As you can imagine a big wall ascent of this magnitude is not all fun and games. A lot of ups and down, hard work and excruciating pain. Speaking about “fun and games”: South-Africa lost against Chili in a football game last night. Do you know the difference between football and rock climbing? For football [...]

Blog post Pete & Mason: On our first trip to Patagonia our eyes were naturally much bigger than our stomachs and we spent our first few forays biting off much more of this place than we could chew. Our first objective was eyed out from the bus drop off at the gate to the park. [...]

Nico, Sean and Ben just spent 13 days up on the east face of the Central Tower of Paine in a successful free ascent of the South African route! It’s the first all free ascent of the East face of the Central Tower! There are some spectacular pitches up there on amazing granite with incredible [...]

Since the guys are still enjoying their time climbing on the central tower’ wall, we need something to keep us waiting… Here is a small video shot just before they left… A little wind-drug…