Andy Kirkpatrick recounts a terrifying tale of a winter ascent of Poincenot, Patagonia.
"Alone on the ledge, shivering, I listen to the wind whispering through the holes in my helmet, my brain dark and empty. I visualize the two frozen corpses somewhere out there high on Cerro Torre, climbers like us who were unlucky and abseiled into early graves. What will I look like, sat here, mummified in ice? Nothing more than a lesson for future climbers..."
In reply to Jack Geldard - Editor - UKC: Waiting impatiently for the follow up....
andy kirkpatrick16 Jan 2009
In reply to Henry Loveless: Just two teams of two (4 ropes - 2 racks). There's simply strength in numbers when things go wrong (this climb took place about two weeks after we abseiled down the Super Couloir).
In reply to andy kirkpatrick: Anyone know when did this climb occur in relation to the aborted climb shown on the dvd psyche when Ian Parnell and Andy K were in Patagonia ?
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