I can't complain about the bathroom view.
The place where we are now is pretty remote. Not much stuff can go wrong, we don't have many plans B.
These are the two most remote peaks we're gonna climb in this whole part of the project... I'm pretty happy to finish with this bit.
Now we're gonna go to Condor and Pissis. We're gonna head south now to Fiambala, it's gonna be our second base.
So, um, we're spliting off, I'm heading south on the road over to a place called Campo de Piedra Pomez.
That's the place where we're gonna come back after Condor.
These guys are gonna head east, and then south.
Man, if something goes wrong here...
So, the wound did not get infected. It seems ok.
At least it's a nice place.
Fiambala!
Hey, how are you?
- Is this the way? - Let's see.
- Let's see. The best way to Condor is this path below. - Yes!
The approach to Condor is very difficult. The problems is the sand and volcanic ashes, which can be tough for the vehicles.
Climbing is easier.
Digging out that car is not. Jesus!
- I'll only go down if you assure me that I can get out of there.
- Ok, let me take a look ahead, and see if ther's an exit.
- He's going to a 3 meter deep sand bank, next to a river.
- If you keep going here, you drop and go up the valley over there!
- I know, I walked over there.
- I told you it was ok for you to follow me.
- There is too much sand.
- Well...
- Yeah, I know, I know.
- I'm not gonna go that way. Just to gain 30 minutes.
- It's not just 30 minutes. It's much more.
- Let's park and leave! We have four hours ahead.
We're gonna follow this lava line. Weird, volcanic, erosioned thing.
And it's around 4, so it's pretty late.
It's a weird, very loose terrain.
We'll climb until 5.500m today for tomorrow's attack.
It's nice to be here. I've studied this place for a long time.
We don't have to aclimatize anymore, cause we're aclimatized.
The problem now relies on the muscle loss, we're losing quite a lot muscle, so we have to eat a lot when we go down...
And being sane, not being crazy.
We're camped a few meters from here. And it's a blessing to have fresh water nearby.
For people living in the city... you turn on the tap... and water comes like a miracle.
I'm sleeping over there. That's my home tonight. Tomorrow, I don't know.
It is 4 am, freezing my balls, I wish I was in my sleeping bag, my warm sleeping bag.
But we gotta start early to be able to come back to the tents still in daylight.
The sun has risen!
I was waiting for it, but the GPS froze nd I don't know the altitude. 5.700m, I think. There's a lot of wind from the west,
Everything froze and my hand is almost there, too. It's too cold.
- After 1 month on this trip, and specially after all the trouble and misfortune we had, we're still going strong.
But only at the end we'll know the outcome of this.
There's this big lava path, it looks pretty sharp so I expect to be back here 6 or 7pm, I hope.
2 km of this terrain is 6.000 of altitude. Why didn't I choose another sport?
The last few meters...
of Condor.
I'm exhausted.
I thought I lost Pedro and Suzie on the way, I thought they actually quit...
Wow. It's kind of unbelievable I tried last year and I couldn't do it.
I undersand now. It's long as fuck. Jesus...
I think the descend is gonna be worst
- Pedro, how are you doing? Are you ok?
- Yes...
- Oh, I'm so happy to see you!
- I'm ok, I'm ok. Happy to be here.
We took a really horrible route up the mountain, which made our lives really hard, and as a result, 3 of us turned back beacause
it was just hard crossing this volcanic ridge it was really hard.
- I saw Max down there. When I was going down I saw his flashlight and he was going up.
Then everything went dark and he vanished.
- Max!
Fingers crossed, he's ok, but it's really really cold out here right now, and really windy. And he've been out for 14, 15 hours now. I'm worried.
- Suzie, did you meet Max?
- Suzie, did you copy me?