Tuesday, 12 April 2011

La Ola



Pampus grass sunset
6b roof

Nick
Me climbing horrible crimpy slab

Run out of rope lowering nick down with another few meters to go. luckily caught him before the rope went thbrough and he fell to his death...

Brazil

Rainforest. Jungle noises. Red soil. Rain. Sun. Mosquitoes. Lighting storms. Painted houses. VW campers + beetles. Cheap bananas. Sandstone. Portugese. Tropical. Awesome


Tiny banana or massive hand?

Random bits and pieces

Rich's new mullet......
big fat ugly noisy turkey
climbing on conglomerate rock at las chilcas. horrible rock
crop sprayer coming in to spray us at 7.30am camping in the farmers field

Pichelemu, Chile

TSUNAMMIIIIIIIIII

Weird bloke praying to the sunset
Sleeping on the beach


Sleeping in a school.... Tsunami rescue centre

Saturday, 2 April 2011

Valle Los Condores

River crossing to the climbs

Simon climbing mine and Gareth's new route, 'Ronnie Corbet'. Shortest route in the world at about 7 meters....
Home




The climbs on the other side of the river
worlds worst bridge. had to walk 3 hours around to put up the rope traverse across the river
Waterfall downstream

Cochamo

Getting to the base of the trail, 13 ton empty weight truck, 8 ton bridge falling apart. oops
Beehives
Cochamo natural waterslides in the rainforest
Muddy trail
Vicky's ride out
Medics

Homemade stretcher, 1.5 hours walk out

The finished product. Rockfall from 2o meters straight to the back. Vicky got this nice hole in her back and 3 broken vertebrae. Hero.
Apnea, 2 pitch splitter crack. Awesome route
Apnea again, from the top looking down on the crack in the pic above
Roger
Me climbing at La Luna, single pitch crag in the valley.
Nature calls 150m ish up on 'The Gruntler'
The Gruntler
Rolf 3rd pitch 'The Gruntler'

Rolf on 'EZ does it' 5th? pitch
The Gruntler' - 5.10d new German route in Cochamo. This is me about to get to the offwidth roof on the 4th pitch which we had to back off.
Danni
Rolf and I, Trinidad wall summit after climbing 'EZ does it' 5.10d 9 pitch crack monster climb.

Trinidad wall
High camp before the big day
Early morning cloud
By night. Trinidad is the second peak from the left, 'EZ does it' the route Rolf and I climbed.

Gaucho on the trail up
Crossing the river
River beach
Moooooo