Patagonia Unplugged: an unofficial and incomplete guide to the western approaches to the Fitzroy massif
Like most first-time visitors to Argentine Patagonia, I was lured south by the legendary reputation of its two greatest peaks, Cerro Torre and Fitzroy.
Beyond them, I knew next to nothing about the geography and climbing on the subsidiary summits beneath these giants. After three weeks of waiting, the wind gods mercifully provided a two day [...]
Alaska 2008 Report
Please note: the following report was written by my friend Ben Gilmore and originally published in the 2008 American Alpine Club Journal…
Our shopping and packing had gone as smoothly as possible, and Maxime Turgeon, Freddie Wilkinson, and I were in Talkeetna ready to fly out to the Yentna Glacier with TAT two days after meeting [...]
Patagonia 2008 Report
Dana “Mad Dog” Drummond and I hit the soon-to-be-paved streets of Chalten on January 16th. With a promising forecast, we quickly repacked and hiked in the next day to the Piedras Negras bivy on the north side of the Fitzroy massif. Following a tip from Colin Haley, we decided to try a new line on [...]
Patagonia 2006 Report
On Christmas eve – just as a four day high pressure system set in — I found myself drinking vino tinta and trying to recite ‘Twas the Night before Christmas’ in the Polacos Bivouac with eight awesome friends…
The upshot of all this is that we slept through the alarm and I spent Christmas day nursing [...]
