What's happening in Patagonia?

What's happening in Patagonia?

Hello! We are out of the park for a few days, resupplying for the next two months. We have been there for 25 straight days and caught that weather window! We climbed for 15 days single push capsule style up the East Face of the North Tower of Paine. We free climbed every pitch except for one 6ft section that went at C1. It could easily be freed at 5.12 ,but with the weather closing and food diminishing we had to worry about seeing the summit. This makes the first complete route up the East Face of the North Tower. We planned on 12 days but were trapped for 15. Our portaledge is destroyed from ice and rock fall, most of our ropes are chopped, and the haul bags our all shot. It was absolutely intense! We summited in an entire white-out on day 13. Trapped in our tattered ledge for day 14 in the same white-out. Day 15 we pitch the bags from 2000ft up with the first hit of sunshine and start rappelling to the glacier below.

PLATE TECHTONICS VI, 5.12 C1 3000ft
15 days, single push capsule style 2013
Moser, Ness

10 day weather window?!?!?!

V, that's what you get staying home for a seasonal girlfriend.

Real climbers are gettin' it done while you armchair has-beens are whining about boobs.

29th January.


Major new route on Fitz Roy.


Flavio Daflon, Sergio Tartari, (Brazil) and Luciano Fiorenza (Argentina) climbed a massive new all free route in the north face of Fitz Roy