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Ascents in South America as Onsight or Onsight solo as sport by Richard Pattison

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Grade Route Gear style Crag Quality Date
6a
18 6a Main Wall Bolted 1 Sport 22m, 10 El Chalten Classic Thu 15th Dec 2016
Excellent. Balancey slab to start, then steep jugs high up. A proper onsight (well, at least a proper sport onsight?)... found the bolts while going for a walk during a bad weather day, straight back to the hostel to get our gear and up we went.

 
18 6a Main Wall Bolted 2 Sport 22m, 9 El Chalten Very Good Sat 17th Dec 2016
Really good climbing. Made me forget all those beautiful mountains behind me, which is the reason we're here. When's the next weather window?

 
18 6a Main Wall Bolted 4 Sport 20m, 9 El Chalten Good Sat 17th Dec 2016
Really enjoyed this. Had a couple of "stop & think" moments at the final test at the scoop before the anchors

 
17 6a Main Wall Bolted 5 Sport 15m, 6 El Chalten Good Sat 17th Dec 2016
Testing side clings for first 2 bolts, then easy up. Awkward to clean again as it wanders so far across at the top.

 
5+
16 5+ Mas Comida Mexicana (Far left of Veshcho Wall 2) Sport 17m, 5 El Chalten Average Sat 17th Dec 2016
Cold windy day, climbed in gore-tex and beanie. Had 2 builders at Koonek Hostel watching us.

 
13 5+ Por las tierras de dios (Slab left of Veshcho Wall 2) Sport 10m, 5 El Chalten Good Sat 17th Dec 2016
Rain was blowing-in from the north, moved quick to finish the climb so we could scamper the ~100m back to our hostel ;o)

 
5
15 5 Aletita (Slab left of Veshcho Wall 3) Sport 10m, 6 El Chalten Good Sat 17th Dec 2016
I used the big flake thing, but Mel said that was cheating, oops, just like the rules at St Leonards gym ;o) I liked this climb.

 
16 5 Slab left of main wall 2 Sport 22m, 7 El Chalten Average Sat 17th Dec 2016
A couple of bizarre bolt placements at thigh height on ledges - although maybe this climb is for 5 year olds? Well... it was really windy and I had to cling to the cliff like a small child who didn't want to go to school...

 
4+
14 4+ Slab left of main wall 1 Sport 22m, 6 El Chalten Average Sat 17th Dec 2016
Really awkward to clean, should've thought about that and had the second top-rope. We cleaned using a tension abseil, could've lowered the second but was concerned about the rope grating on several edges.

 
14 4+ Slab right of main wall 2 Sport 16m, 6 El Chalten Average Thu 15th Dec 2016
Easy, nice 2m of side clings past 2nd bolt, but rest was forgettable. Pointless 1st bolt, should've been 1m lower to protect scramble, not at knee height on ledge.

 
4
13 4 Kinki y Kanka (Slab left of Veshcho Wall 1) Sport 10m, 5 El Chalten Average Sat 17th Dec 2016
Bizarre, 2 anchors at the top. Even more bizarre, I walked-off left so didn't use either!

 

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