Category: Alpamayo 2012

What a climb! Standing on the summit of Peru’s Alpamayo was one of the highlights of my climbing career. No, it was […]

I summited Alpamayo on July 3rd, > 2012 at 11:30 AM with Altitude Junkies teammates Samuli Mansikka and Mclean Smith. It was […]

The winds picked up throughout the night clearing the clouds but making the summit a bit windy for an early start. Even though it has calmed now around noon we will wait until tomorrow morning for the climb. Also there seems to be more stomach issues …

Hopefully we go for the summit of Alpamayo tomorrow, weather dependent. But it looks good.Today was spectacular climbing to the Col Camp at 18,000′. We climbed in two rope teams of three navigating glacier crevasses and the final 60 degree pitch before…

We are now on our third day at the Alpamayo Base Camp after taking a day and a half to trek here through the mountain valleys. Short spindly trees cover the area but it is the amphitheater of fluted snow covered peaks that attracts the eye.Our small Al…

I leave this week to climb Peru’s Alpamayo, one of the world’s most beautiful peaks in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of […]