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Some photos from climbing and skiing in Patagonia this winter. Hope to be back soon to this incredible place.

The Torre group and Adella

Cerro Torre’s infamous summit mushroom

Climbing above Col Esperanza

Descent – photo by Matthew Tufts (matthew-tufts.com)

Leaving Peidra del Fraile

Fitz and Torre

A remote summit with an incredible view – photo by Matthew Tufts (matthew-tufts.com)

The couloir

Torre group from the west

In the tent at Paso Guillaumet

Looking up at Fitzroy

High on Cerro Torre

Rest day in Fraile

Piergiorgio & Fitzroy

Approach hike

Cold morning time lapse photography requires good insulation

Enjoying our last food on day eight

Base camp in Circo de los Altares

East face of Aguja Guillaumet

Paso Guillaumet

Guillaumet, Mermoz and Fitz

First pitch

Sunrise

Fitzroy skyline

Sleeping in the First Light Hoody

Granite paradise

Leading the descent – photo by Matthew Tufts (matthew-tufts.com)

Looking down at my pack feeding out rope

Patagonia powder! – photo by Matthew Tufts (matthew-tufts.com)

Fitzroy lookout

Paso Guillaumet

In-situ rap anchors of varying quality!

Back at the tent and happy after a fun day of climbing

Skiing towards Paso Viento

The Elmo

Piergiorgio & Fitzroy

Looking west to the ice cap

Getting cold as the sun sets on theMarconi Glacier

A summit at last

The long and tricky descent

Northeast Face of Cerro Rincon

Rincon

Traverse

Camp on the Marconi glacier

Circo de los Altares

Skiing up the Marconi glacier

Fitz & Torre

Fitzroy & Piergiorgio

Ragni Route

Skiing at Creston – photo by Matthew Tufts (matthew-tufts.com)

Cerro Torre appears from the clouds

Sunrise on Fitz

Fitz from El Pilar

Condor

Patagonia sunrise

Fitzroy sunrise

Better snow ice than expected

The upper west face of Cerro Torre

Ski touring in Patagonia

Emptiness of the ice cap

Long descent – photo by Matthew Tufts (matthew-tufts.com)

A short video and a few photos from my recent trip to Patagonia with Carlos Suarez. Although the weather was largely not good enough for big climbing objectives, we put in one good attempt on the Fitzroy’s Supercanaleta and spent the rest of what was a very enjoyable trip waiting for weather that never came. Better luck next time…

Fitzroy from the East

Gearing up

Belaying Carlos to get a photo of Cerro Torre

Fitzroy from the Rio Electrico side

A boulder and a boulderer

The art of the cordero

Ropeless in the Supercaneleta

Waiting for weather

The team after a run up the Torre valley

Starting up Aguja Guillaumet

Back to the Fitzroy glacier north

Alpine start

Supercaneleta

Bad weather, good boulders

Lunch with climbing legend Denis Urubko

Speedflying in South America

Take off with a veiw

The mighty alfajores

Cordero y Cerveza was not the originial plan for the Veloce GTX

Fitzroy from El Pilar

As we reached the end of a great winter climbing season in Scotland classic gullies on the west coast were banked out with fantastic snow ice. With perfect conditions I couldn’t resist a speedy solo ascent of Crowberry Gully IV,4 on the Buachaille with a speedwing flight from the top. Total time 1hr 50min from the car to the summit, 2:20 round trip. An epic day to finish off a great winter season in Scotland!

A fantastic day out on the Ben Nevis classic Orion Face Direct. After a couple of poor winters it seems good ice climbing conditions have finally returned to the Scottish highlands… About time!