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Cerro Huinay (1430m) in Chilean Patagonia Gets First Ascent
Chris Kalman
[Photo] Pancho Herrera.
From February 11 to 25, 2021, 1430-meter Cerro Huinay was climbed by four Chilean climbers: Nicolas Gutierrez, Pancho Herrera, Sebastian Rojas and Hernan Rodriguez. The 1000-meter, twenty-five pitch 5.12 A2+ was the first ascent of the wall one of the biggest in Chilean Patagonia. The first pitch was the 5.12 free climbing crux of the route, while the third pitch was the only one with aid climbing about ten meters of A2 traversing; fourteen of the other pitches were in the 5.11 range. It took the team two weeks five days of fixing ropes for the first 500 meters, six days on the ground ofwaiting out bad weather, and then three more days of climbing to reach the summit.