South American, Chilean–Argentine Patagonia, Cerro Torre, Fitz Roy, Aguja Guillaumet and Aguja Poincenot, 1983

Publication Year: 1985.

Cerro Torre, Fitz Roy, Aguja Guillaumet and Aguja Poincenot, 1983. In October 1982 Ermanno Salvaterra and Elio Orlandi failed by 100 feet to complete the Maestri route on the east buttress of Cerro Torre when the weatherturned bad. They returned in 1983 and with Maurizio Giarolli, Salvaterra completed the climb on October 25, 1983. They bivouacked twice on the ascent and once more on the descent. On November 26 Salvaterra, Giarolli and Orlandi made the fourth ascent of the Super-Couloir of Fitz Roy, making a new variation by climbing directly for the summit from the great chockstone. On December 2 Salvaterra, Ginella Paganini, Orlandi and Argentine Jorge Tarditti climbed the Aguja Guillaumet by the southeast couloir. On December 7 Salvaterra, Giarolli, Tarditti and Orlandi ascended the Aguja Poincenot by the Whillans route on the southeast. Orlandi and Tarditti made a new variant, climbing the west face from the shoulder.