
| Climbed as part of Expedicion de Los Payachatas 2006 para Europa, an expedition trying to promote the tarapaca region of chile as a climbing/trekking region. we sent 2 teams to the twin volcanoes, parinacota and pomerape. I climbed the south face starting from the chilean side rather than bolivia. My partner was Claudio Retemal, president of Chileans Mountain Guide Association and former chilean rock climbing champion.
both teams made the summit, the we had bad conditions being so late in the season. we climbed on rock, penitentes, and brittle ice. we traversed the mountain by descending the north face.
(does anyone know if this traverse has been done before?)
the area is spectacular, and pomerape is much more exciting than the slog up parinacota. |