Pirmin Bertle klettert Azul es el cielo de los ciegos (9a)

Latin America’s first 9a in Piedra Parada, Argentina, falls after a long struggle and long time after fall has fallen into the Patagonian pampa.
When skies are blue and climbers are singing, the sun is heating the ground and only in this enormous canyon, that makes Piedra Parada Piedra Parada, fresh air reigns, staying it is no art, no effort. Just fun.
We came to have fun. Arriving in April, everything was as perfect as South America can be. Wild, vast, clear and friendly, open people, lots of rock, picturesque, free camping besides the Rio Chubut, eponym to a whole region, probably bigger than Germany, and nevertheless small up here, close to it’s source. Small enough to wade through. To bathe. To yoga on it’s riverbanks.
After almost four months in Patagonia, with spectacular landscapes, nice people, beautiful and also hard climbing, this will be the first place we will literately dive in. People will drag us down into this water of easiness, unknown to even a Europe’s climbers heart. A day is just a day, not a unit of productivity. Fire, music, collective cooking, joints and wine. Climbing then and when, but not more than one or two gos per day in a project. This is different, feels like days I thought to have forgotten in ten years Switzerland. Feels like my first trips to Siurana, El Chorro, Gorges du Tarn, 2006. Smile out into the day throughout my eyes, oh my sweet past! …. http://www.lizardclimbing.com/index.php?id=401