Weekend Whipper: Ripping Gear on a Patagonian Big Wall
“I got the pitch dialed but my arms were so pumped that I couldn’t quite put it together.”
“I got the pitch dialed but my arms were so pumped that I couldn’t quite put it together.”
A new film follows two climbers on their quest to normalize the partnerships between able-bodied and adaptive climbers and raise awareness about accessibility barriers
The film takes us from glacier to summit, highlighting the tip-thrashing cracks, portaledge cook-offs, and poopy travails of living on a wall.
Uncovering approachable routes for the everyday climber in South Patagonia.
An international team and a spell of good weather yields two new big-wall routes in Chile, one of which led to a virgin summit.
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Climbers try free variation to Patagonian testpiece Riders on the Storm