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lundi 28 novembre 2011

Los Gigantes

On the way the way to Argentina after the Chilean border right in the middle of a huge no man's land Ernie decided to fuck up again... This time 50 km from the nearest town in the Northern Argentinian higlands and a major breakdown which ended upo being the water pump.
In consequence not really wanting to spend one week in a former dusty mining town we all packed our bags and left the truck to go the next planned crag. After 20 hours+ of bus and one week supply shopping in Cordoba we arrived in the Los Gigantes crag. Without the truck logistic was a bit more complex having to carry climbing gear and one week food to the crag.
Concerning climbing Los Gigantes is THE traditional climbing place around Cordoba. By traditional it means old-school climbing on slabs, chimneys and cracks with generally run out gears in opposition to modern climbing in generally overhangs and well protected. Therefore it is more a mental game rather than muscle game :) One  week was more than enough to destroy my feet !
Nice sunset in the camp site

Our camp site

Rock and condor

Cerro de la Cruz, one of the biggest sector and very slabby

Woody loves slabs

After climbing relaxing beer and feet in cold water, what else ?

Hot rock alcoholics

One of the almost no slabby route on a nice red granit

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