OF VOLCAN LANIN... and the top of the top of challenge of all the treks we did so far.
We climbed on volcan lanin. Its the highest mountain in patagonia. It took 2 days. we had a good luck with the weather and we could go up to the summit.
The summit is in 3770m. in the first day we climbed from 1200m (not in snow) and slept in a refugio at around 2600m. The next morning we put our crampones (things you put on the shoes for walking better on the snow), we took the ice axes and started the way up. It wasnt easy at all, it took us 5 hours to get to the summit, but we did it! In the upper part, closer to the summit, it was ice and not snow and the slope is 45 degrees. The views in the way and the sunrise were very beautiful, but from the summit we couldnt see anything because it was windy and under us there were many clouds. we brought ourselfs alfajores to eat in the summit but there was no way to open it because the wind could take them away from us...
Any way, around 25 people went up in that day and i was the only girl (all the rest men...).
Now we are back in san martin, resting because our muscles heart (we are staying in a place where we need to go 2 floors up and everytime i need to take something from the room, i think 10 times before i do it, its so hard...)
We climbed on volcan lanin. Its the highest mountain in patagonia. It took 2 days. we had a good luck with the weather and we could go up to the summit.
The summit is in 3770m. in the first day we climbed from 1200m (not in snow) and slept in a refugio at around 2600m. The next morning we put our crampones (things you put on the shoes for walking better on the snow), we took the ice axes and started the way up. It wasnt easy at all, it took us 5 hours to get to the summit, but we did it! In the upper part, closer to the summit, it was ice and not snow and the slope is 45 degrees. The views in the way and the sunrise were very beautiful, but from the summit we couldnt see anything because it was windy and under us there were many clouds. we brought ourselfs alfajores to eat in the summit but there was no way to open it because the wind could take them away from us...
Any way, around 25 people went up in that day and i was the only girl (all the rest men...).
Now we are back in san martin, resting because our muscles heart (we are staying in a place where we need to go 2 floors up and everytime i need to take something from the room, i think 10 times before i do it, its so hard...)
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