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Stay tuned to see how Jake Bresnehan and Lee Cossey go while attempting to climb the iconic Patagonian testpiece Riders on the Storm, 27/A2, 36 pitches.
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A brief history
- In 1990 a team of some of the worlds
- strongest climbers, including the late, visionary Wolfgang Güllich, stood beneath the central tower of Paine in southern Patagonia. Their dream was to find a way to free-climb this 1200m finger of alpine granite that defies the forces of nature and continues to stand in the face of some of the worst weather on the planet. The route would require hard, gymnastic and bold climbing while dealing with the cold and extreme wind that the area is notorious for. To us this route stands in the world of climbing as a definition of vision. It stands as the epitome of what climbers can achieve when they forget the preconceived idea’s of others and allow themselves to dream. Today, 18 years after the first ascent it has it has received just a handful of attempts, none of which have been able to match the style of the first ascent. The last few sections of aid are still to be freed and remain as a great problem for this generation.
Thanks
to these guys for helping to make it happen
5 comments:
EPIC!!!!!
Awesome reading so far guys. can;t wait to find out the end.
Lee can you call me ASAP its urgent xxxA
oh man!! that sounds really cold!! top effort! u guys are the masters of suffering!!! lol! great read.
vince
What a f&cking great read! Who needs Alpinist magazine with this stuff to snack on! More more more!
I love the idea of the hypothermic stunt man with blue lips in a soggy wet sleeping bag hanging atop Torres Del Paine in a storm being the food nazi enforcing snack policy! If I didnt know better I'd call it fiction!
(oh and I hope you boys have started to defrost ok by now..)
L
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