Patagonien

Mayan Smith-Gobat and Ines Papert summited Torres Central, in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia/Chile, via the east face. This is the first female as well as the fifth known ascent of Riders on the Storm, exactly 25 years after the first ascent of this historic route.

Mayan Smith-Gobat and Ines Papert summited Torres Central, in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia/Chile, via the east face. This is the first female as well as the fifth known ascent of Riders on the Storm, exactly 25 years after the first ascent of this historic route.

Mayan Smith-Gobat and Ines Papert summited Torres Central, in Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia/Chile, via the east face. This is the first female as well as the fifth known ascent of Riders on the Storm, exactly 25 years after the first ascent of this historic route.

Pirmin Bertle wanted to leave El Chalten to visit Puerto Natales for only some days, but then he found this line. Never had he seen rock like this before, never had made moves like this. Never in a spot like this.

Am 6. Februar 2016 erreichten die beiden Alpinistinnen Ines Papert und Mayan Smith-Gobat mit Kletterkollege und Photograph Thomas Senf den höchsten Punkt des Torre Central (2800m) im chilenischen Torres del Paine Nationalpark über die extrem schwierige Ostwand.

Der Schweizer Alpinist Roger Schaeli konnte vom 4. bis 5. Februar 2016 zusammen mit Seilpartner Friedrich Maderer über die Südostkante des Cerro Torre in Patagonien den Gipfel "by fair means" erreichen. Der Cerro Torre gilt als einer der herausfordernsten und schwierigsten Berge der Welt.

Vom 29.01. bis 31.01.2016 konnten Silvan Schüpbach und Matteo Della Bordella die vierte Begehung by fair means - also ohne die nun entfernten Kompressor Bohrhaken - der Cerro Torre Südostrippe für sich verbuchen.

Markus Pucher unternahm nach seiner erfolgreichen Sommersolobegehung des 3.128 Meter hohen Cerro Torre 2013 in knapp 6 Stunden und in gut zwölf Stunden im Jahr 2014 bei Schneesturm jetzt den Versuch diese Herausforderung auch im patagonischen Winter zu meistern.

Follow climbing legend Thomas Huber together with his teammates Andi Schnarf and Tommy Aguilo trying to succeed in the traverse of the Torre group in Patagonia. For more than 10 years Thomas tried to climb all peaks in a row.

Patagonia presents a Duct Tape Then Beer film. Force is the collected footage from 10 years of Mikey Schaefer’s climbs, summits and misadventures in Patagonia woven together into a story of success, fear, joy and growth.