Climbing Huayna Potosi

The first day we hiked up to base camp at 5,100m and after an early dinner got into our tents and tried to sleep at 6pm. That's because the next day we were up at 2am to start climbing. The wind picked up at night and battered the tent so much we thought there was a fierce storm outside. It took us about 6 hours to get to the summit at 6,088m, but there was not much technical climbing. There were only two walls, the first of which was only 50m high at about 75%. Then we crossed several crevasses and jumped over a 3 foot wide crevasse (at least 100m deep, but we couldn't see the bottom) to get to the summit wall. The last wall was 200m high at an incline of about 60%. We were so excited by that point that the guide and I were racing each other to the top. From the summit you could see all the way to Lake Titicaca. Can't wait to go climbing again, the mountains here are incredible!