El Chaltén, Part II (abbreviated)

This will be a quickie with something more comprehensive when I return to the land of more stable interwebs. In short, I am back in El Chaltén again after finishing another season at Palmer Station, Antarctica. I jammed here ASAP to meet up with my friend and climbing partner from NYC, Andrew. Because of the slow internet I am not able to upload any photos yet, but we arrived with a 5 day weather window and took full advantage by getting in some serious climbing. Along with our guide Manuel from El Chaltén Mountain Guides we ascended Amy Couloir to summit Aguja Guillaumet. We rested for a day in the mountains before doing an amazing ridge traverse that ended at the beginning of the Fonrouge route up Guillaumet. We then celebrated with a bunch of other American climbers in town for the season with an asado (the Argentine BBQ equivalent). More details later…