RIO. Incredible

Rio - best city in the world? Better than Southampton anyway....
As with the rest of the pictures, these are mostly climbing related... Sorry if you are getting bored of looking at rocks.

Just after climbing Sugarloaf. Christo is on top of the bit of rock in the middle of the photo.
Nice lycra leggings too.
After climbing Corcovado (the rock Christo statue is on)
Obligatory Rio 'in front of Jesus' picture.

Favelas
Barefoot football. We played some Brazilian kids who were about 12 years old and chubby. We narrowly beat them...
Cheesy pose on Copacabana
Capoeira at Copacabana. Sweet moves
My new ride
Just finished climbing Sugarloaf
Topping out over the edge of Corcovado. American tourists love it. (Big Jesus behind)
About to get pissed on on Copacabana
Sugarloaf. Climbed it, easy, nexxxxt
Lapa steps

More nice lycra

Rob and I survived hitchhiking to Corcovado past the favelas with these guys. Thought we may be about to get kidnapped when the car door opened and we saw these them...

Serra do Cipo, Brazil

Incredible, 'world class' limestone sport climbing here. Most of it steep overhanging stuff. Did my hardest routes to date here, brazilian 7b - french 6c+. The climbing was sweet, and there was a little village/town down the road. Went down one night for 494387 beers and hung out with some crazy brazilian blokes who owned the bar and drove us around in their camper van (about 15 of us in an old VW camper, stripped out with nothing in the back..) Lots of strange Rastafarians hanging around there too...

Getting steep
The guy on the right is called Ronaldo (obviously...). He owned the bar
French 8a+, managhed 5 bolts. Not bad!
More sustained steep-ness
Cheers Nick for taking the photos.

Cuzcuzeiro Rock, Brazil

This place was good. Nice sandstone. Only problem was the bugs... Massive marching ants or termites or something like that everywhere. Mosquitoes. Spiders. Every sort of shitty annoying bug you can imagine... No bugs is probably the only benefit of not being in Brazil anymore. It was pretty hot climbing here too - climbing in the sun above 30 degrees meant I looked like I had had a shower after every route due to the sweat. mmmmmmm
Where we were camping there were banana, orange, lime and mango (I think) trees. Saw some Toucans flying over on the drive here. Big old orange beaks on them...


Me climbing something.
Random photo of snuff. Not sure what this is doing here
Morning drive towards Rio.

Los Arenales (Argentina)

A few photos I forgot about from Argentina. We climbed a 5 pitch route by moonlight here during full moon, to mix it up a bit. It was only a grade 5+, but made far harder not being able to see your feet, or where the next bolt is....

Full moon climbing....
Slightly blurry photo of the stars from the 3rd (?) pitch.
Absolutely drained after leading the 6b+ crux offwidth pitch on 'Fuga De Cabras' on Carlos Weber. Best route I did at arenales by a long way. 6 pitches, 300ish meters. Nightmare 2 hour scree approach...
Summit. 3600m

I have some more photos from here somewhere but have not been bothered to sort them out. Will upload them some time in the future....

Iguazu Falls

Pretty impressive waterfalls, apparently there are a total of 273 there. Although half an hour was more than enough time to look at water falling over a ledge for me thanks.