Glacier training & Yanapaccha (5460m)
4 days we spent practising, freezing and heavily breathing on a glacier above 5000m
before proper ice climbing our first technical peak:
“Yanapaccha” (5460m, AD-, 60 degree ice) in the Cordillera Blanca.
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| Zigeiner & Jason (a US rock climber I met @ my hostal in Huaraz) climbing the last pitches of the west face (normal route) of Yanapaccha |
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Summit of Yanapaccha
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Crevasse Rescue Training with our guide/teacher/instructor “Edwin Milla” the day before
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| On the way to Base Camp | On the way to the summit |
June 24, 2009
Tags: (Rock) Climbing, Cordillera Blanca, Peru, Summit Log, Yanapaccha Posted in: Peru
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