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Overview
Overview
It was time to get a taste of altitude with a 3-week expedition to Bolivia with Jagged Globe. The itinerary was fairly packed with 4 mountains to ascend around La Paz, Pico Austria, Pequeno Alpamayo, Huayna Potosi and Illimani, with the latter two being above 6,000m.
This was my first expedition since being diagnosed with colitis and as such, it was a complete unknown how my body would react to the altitude and whether I had sufficiently regained my fitness since my diagnosis in order to take on a multi-objective expedition such as this.
Whilst I had to miss Pequeno Alpamayo having come down with a stomach bug, I was really pleased to still summit on the other 3, although that did entail having to climb Huayna Potosi within 48 hours of being in La Paz (over 2,000m of altitude gain).
All in all, it was a brilliant trip with a great crew and exceptional leadership from Jagged Globe's Matt Brook and left me with the confidence to continue onto higher peaks.
Photos
Photos
Looking down at La Paz - an incredible expanse of a city
Cable cars are one of the easiest ways to get around
Lake Titicaca - part of our acclimatisation
A leisurely stroll around Pico Austria and Pequeno Alpamayo's base camp
Looking down at base camp
The summit of Pico Austria (5,270m)
View from the summit over at the Condoriri
Huayna Potosi from afar - our first 6,000m mountain and one I'd have to climb having missed our second acclimatisation climb on Pequeno Alpamayo
Getting close to the summit of Huayna Potosi as the sun comes up
Summit of Huayna Potosi
The legend that is Matt Brook (our guide) behind me on the summit
Team photo!
The road to Illimani - don't look out the window if you're squeamish
Trek up to base camp
Base camp with Illimani behind
Base camp at sunset
Sometimes you just have to go... a great view for me though!
Trek up to camp 1 for the summit push
Setting up camp on our rocky outcrop beneath Illimani's summit
Not much room for manoeuvre up there
As far as bedroom views go, it's up there...
Advanced camp from above
Approaching the Illimani summit
Summit photo - it was really cold with windchill
The tiny black dots are the rest of our team descending from the summit
Lisa, me, Josh and Boo back in base camp - all 4 of us aspiring to be Everest summiters
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