Via dei Ragni: Grade VI, 95deg snow/rime/ice, M4, 1000m Scribe/Photos/Climbers: Jeff and Priti Wright Google Street View: Cerro Torre Summit 360 Panorama We’ve had a picture of Cerro Torre on our desktops, phone wallpapers, and posters above our bed for the past 5 years. It was the reason we took up ice climbing in the Read more…
Before our expedition, K6 Central (7,155m) was the 19th highest unclimbed peak in the World with a prominence of at least 100m. Of the other 18 taller unclimbed peaks, 2 are legitimate mountains, 6 are relatively independent Main-Peaks, and 10 are major subsidiaries. K6 Central falls under the later: a Read more…
K6 Main (the highpoint of the K6 massif) has only been reached once in history, in 1970, by the Austrian Karakoram Expedition of the Vienna Academic Section of the Austrian Alpine Club led by 24-year old Eduard Koblmüller (who would go on to become a celebrated Mountaineer including the first Read more…
Since I was a kid, I thought of Wai‘ale‘ale as an inaccessible, spiritual place filled with adventure that only the hardest humans in history have ever visited. I never thought it would be possible to get to the center of Kaua‘i, the highest point, one of the wettest places on Earth Read more…
We climbed K6 West (third ascent 7,140m) and K6 Central (first ascent 7,155m) this October. We summited West on Oct 8th and Central on Oct 9th. We had been planning to climb K6 from the Nangmah valley side for over two years. When COVID struck, we held on to the Read more…
QUA-ROUTINE! (also great for after quarantine is over) The goal is doing it. We won’t get strong if we don’t actually do the exercises. We wouldn’t do the exercises if they require a lot of equipment, or a lot of time. But if we have a simple plan we can squeeze Read more…
Mountain: The Eiger Summit Date: March 19, 2020 Route: The 1938 Heckmair Route (first ascent route) “Anyone who returns from the Eigerwand cannot but realize that he has done something more than a virtuoso climb: he has lived through a human experience to which he had committed not only all Read more…
Disclaimer: Uploading photos is not working well. Sorry for the lack of photos, please check Instagram! Over the years that Jeff and I have come to Patagonia, to climb in the Fitz Roy range, we’ve learn a couple of things, picked up some tips and tricks, and fallen in love Read more…
Jeff and I had been dreaming of climbing Cerro Torre for years and years, since nearly the beginning of our climbing career. The mythical looking wind sculpted domes, and the carved blue tunnels through rimed towers had captivated my imagination. I couldn’t wait to climb through them myself! Aerial Drone Read more…