Video #3: Weather – David Lama’s First Free Ascent of Patagonia’s Cerro Torre

ByMary Anne Potts
March 21, 2014

Climbing in Patagonia can be a weather waiting game. But when the conditions are unsuitable on the peaks, adventures abound in the climbing gateway town of El Chaltén, Argentina. Here we see David Lama, one of our 2013 Adventurers of the Year, enjoying a little R+R before making his historic first free ascent of Cerro Torre.

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