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06/13 - Welsh South Tower of Paine 2006
Mike (Twid) Turner with Stu McAlease November-December 2006)
These two Patagonian stalwarts hoped to climb a new route on the SE Face of the South (and highest) Tower of Paine (2500m), which would also be the first complete British ascent of the Tower. After initially free climbing, they reached a crack on the SE ridge, and then a series of hanging corners, where progress became desperately slow, with some pitches taking 3 days. After about 800m of vertical climbing they reached easier ground, but were then hit by a monster storm with winds well over 200 kph, after 5 days of which they initiated an epic descent, feeling lucky to get down alive. They have called their incomplete route ‘The good, the bad and the ugly’ and graded it A3+, E2.
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