After a few days of ferrying loads we quickly decided to take a quick break of all the walking by doing some climbing. We split in to two teams: the Favresse brothers spotted an unclimbed unnamed beautiful red spire at the base of Mount Odin, Stephane and Sean decided to try the unclimbed wall of Tirokwa Peak… by starting up an unfinished Australian line. Both climbs were put up in perfect style: onsight, first ascent, clean (no gear or bolts added to the wall). Both were put up in a +/- 24h non stop push BC to BC.
The Favresse’s route is named “Le bic rouge”, Steph and Sean’s route is called “Chocolate boomerang”.
I was exactly what we needed to get psyched again to start carrying our load further up towards the base of Asgard. We each had three loads of between 30 and 40 kg to carry 60 km from where the boat had dropped us off. It might seem like a drag and a lot of work, it wasn’t. It was just nice to be in such a magical place. The weather was perfect and we hoped it wasn’t going to shut down on us as we arrived at Asgard.
More climbing pics of Asgard coming soon…