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Aguja Guillomet, Patagonia

January 2009

After almost two weeks of waiting out bad weather, a short window appeared so we decided to go for Aguja Guillomet.

We left Chalten in the late afternoon after the rain had stopped and arrived at the base of the glacier at around 8 pm. At midnight we started up the glacier towards Paso Superior. The snow was firm, so we progressed quickly. We reached Paso at 2:30 am; brewed up some strong coffee and organized our gear that we had cached on our previous trip. At 4:20 am we started hiking towards the base of Aguja Guillomet planing ...

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