Up The Rocks

We (Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva and Ben Ditto) just came back from Torres Del Paine National Park where on the 2nd of february we summitted the central tower via the South African Route. Our ascent is possibly the third ascent of the route and the first free ascent of the east face of the central tower (1200m). We spent 13 days on the wall accompanied by our trusty mandolin, tin whistle and harmonica.
12 February 2009

... Starting from pitch six the serious climbing began, with overhanging and vertical sections. Before pitch 14 the route resembled a usual 6 А , people compared it with Dalar . But last 6 pitches, starting from pitch 15 was a huge overhang with minimum terrain, and the rock was very hard, it was difficult even to place bolts, especially on the most abrupt section - pitches 15, 16 and 17.

Vadik's 1st start on the leftVadik's 1st start on the left

SPEED Men Qualification - Provisional results