Rough times: A friend of ours died. Chino, an Argentinean climber, died from hypothermia after an attempt on Poincenot. Sean had met Chino here in Chalten two years ago, traveled with him for a couple of weeks, and stayed at his house in Buenos Aires. We met up with him again when we arrived in [...]

Our base camp in Torre valley being at a six hour walk from El Chalten, we decided to only bring up the bare essentials: a little food, some rock climbing gear, the mandolin, the banjo, the flute and our newest addition to our musical quiver: a trumpet. While waiting at a bus stop a week [...]

After the South African route we stayed in Torres Del Paine for another week hoping to do some more climbing there, but the weather was extremely bad. So we decided to move to El Chalten, home of Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre. On previous pilgrimages we had done some attempts on the east face of [...]