After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
After all the preparations we finally got a weather window to give Dawn Wall a try. After so much work it felt great to get to actually climb and we lucked out with some perfect sunny January days. Straight off the ground the easier bottom pitches were challenging as we hadn’t had a chance to try them since November but the higher we made it the better we had everything rehearsed. Some of the longest pitches were really stressful because you spend such a long time climbing a pitch and if you slip near the anchors you end up wasting lots of time and energy. We had focused on dialing the insecure sections and it worked. All was going great until we couldn’t get through a section of running water. Then a series of winter storms hit. During our time prepping Mulero counted about 20km of jumaring – not counting hauling up hundreds of kilos of water, gear, ropes and supplies that you need for doing the climb unsupported. Big wall climbing at this level seems to be 90% rigging, hauling and jumaring and 10% weather. And once all the work is done, you get rewarded with some climbing. Being the only party on El Capitan for about a month and a half was pretty special on its own and life in the “partyledge” camp was a whole new world I’d never seen. Now that the logistics and the beta are all figured out, stoke is high to return for round two in the next season! 🙌 📷 @westmountainmedia @blackdiamond @lasportivagram @lasportivana
El Chaltén 📷 @lena_bam
El Chaltén 📷 @lena_bam
Casi Nipo for my last day in El Chaltén. Absolutely incredible cluster of boulders! We enjoyed all the classics and I managed to open a new boulder to the right side of El Puma. Took a lot of brainwork to figure out this project but at the end of the day ’Buenas retardes’ was born. Extra stoked on this one! Climbs so well and a contender for the hardest boulder in Chaltén. Couldn’t have asked for a better ending for the trip. Peace out Patagonia! 🙌 📷 @nicogantz @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Torres Del Paine 📷 @nicogantz
A couple days ago we got a good weather window in Torres del Paine. Last time rain forced us down after a few pitches followed by the 20km back empty handed. This time with weather on our side we climbed the North tower via Taller del Sol with an adventurous night time descent via Moncino. Finding the rappels proved mildly epic in the dark putting us back at the bivy no earlier than 8AM after an all-nighter. On top of the towers you really feel how wild and remote these mountains are. Good (and stressful) times with @leon_riveros & @nicogantz @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
A couple days ago we got a good weather window in Torres del Paine. Last time rain forced us down after a few pitches followed by the 20km back empty handed. This time with weather on our side we climbed the North tower via Taller del Sol with an adventurous night time descent via Moncino. Finding the rappels proved mildly epic in the dark putting us back at the bivy no earlier than 8AM after an all-nighter. On top of the towers you really feel how wild and remote these mountains are. Good (and stressful) times with @leon_riveros & @nicogantz @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
A couple days ago we got a good weather window in Torres del Paine. Last time rain forced us down after a few pitches followed by the 20km back empty handed. This time with weather on our side we climbed the North tower via Taller del Sol with an adventurous night time descent via Moncino. Finding the rappels proved mildly epic in the dark putting us back at the bivy no earlier than 8AM after an all-nighter. On top of the towers you really feel how wild and remote these mountains are. Good (and stressful) times with @leon_riveros & @nicogantz @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
A couple days ago we got a good weather window in Torres del Paine. Last time rain forced us down after a few pitches followed by the 20km back empty handed. This time with weather on our side we climbed the North tower via Taller del Sol with an adventurous night time descent via Moncino. Finding the rappels proved mildly epic in the dark putting us back at the bivy no earlier than 8AM after an all-nighter. On top of the towers you really feel how wild and remote these mountains are. Good (and stressful) times with @leon_riveros & @nicogantz @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
A couple days ago we got a good weather window in Torres del Paine. Last time rain forced us down after a few pitches followed by the 20km back empty handed. This time with weather on our side we climbed the North tower via Taller del Sol with an adventurous night time descent via Moncino. Finding the rappels proved mildly epic in the dark putting us back at the bivy no earlier than 8AM after an all-nighter. On top of the towers you really feel how wild and remote these mountains are. Good (and stressful) times with @leon_riveros & @nicogantz @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
I’m excited to finally share this short film we shot a couple years ago (link in bio). Big thanks goes out to @alvipakarinen and the entire production crew for making something that steps outside the traditional mold of a climbing film. See for yourself. @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
I’m excited to finally share this short film we shot a couple years ago (link in bio). Big thanks goes out to @alvipakarinen and the entire production crew for making something that steps outside the traditional mold of a climbing film. See for yourself. @blackdiamond @lasportivagram
Patagonia
#blackouttuesday
Just out from @blackdiamond for those extra wide offwidths the new massive #21 Camalot that people have been asking for! #tamethemonster @blackdiamond
