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Aguja Guillaumet in Patagonia by Colin Haley - the Amy Couloir on the East Wall
http://www.up-climbing.com/en/news/moun ... olin-haley

http://colinhaley.blogspot.com

very cool, thanks for posting!

Beautiful! Dave and I climbed that same route 2 years ago....of course we had a guide and tons of gear. Colin is incredible!

That was fun to watch.

The helmet cam's ultra wide angle lens really distorts the perspective though. Made me kind of queasy.

The website says there's a 5.9 pitch up in the rock section. A corner pitch.

http://mounteverest.net/news.php?id=19018 -- has some interesting links about the Patagonian climbs

Dingus Milktoast wrote:Deb... maybe you can answer a question I had (Hi, btw)

I read somewhere that the route was a 50 degree couloir followed by 3 pitches of rock up to 5.8, then a summit snowfield and the top. Is that the route you did, or reasonably close, in terms of difficulty?

Just curious is all.

Cheers
DMT

Hi Craig!
Yes, that sounds about right. I thought there was a 5.9 section in there somewhere, but as cold as we were, it all felt harder than truly rated....well, except for the couloir, which really didn't feel 50. We spent more time on approach and descent than climbing of course.
Would love to do it again, but hate to gamble with the weather. We were EXTRAORDINARILY lucky with the weather in Jan 2008.