Paragliding from Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre, 1988. Four German ...

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Paragliding fr o m Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre, 1988. Four G erm an clim bers led by M atthias Pinn m ade a num ber o f unsuccessful attem pts on Cerro Torre in A ugust 1988 before turning to Fitz Roy, w hich they clim bed by the Supercouloir. A fter a bivouac on the sum m it, they paraglided back to Base Cam p. Finally, they m anaged to clim b the M aestri bolt route on C erro Torre, but the w ind was so strong that the only sensible thing was to clim b back dow n. Some days later, they were helicoptered back to C erro T orre’s sum m it and they com pleted paraglider descents from there.

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