Nevado Alpamayo: 5947m (19,511ft)

Rolfe, Rick and I on the summit of Alpamayo, 10:00am August 27, 2000.

8 km & 1647m above Alpamayo Base Camp

6 km & 947m above Alpamayo Morain Camp

3 km & 647m above Alpamayo Col Camp

 

Ok, ok- so these foggy shots are dubious proof at best that we actually made the summit! Trust Me! The clouds rolled in on the second to last pitch- quite the bummer. The fog did, however, make for that spectacular shot of Rolfe leading the last pitch. We left Col Camp at 4:00am, summited at 10:00am, and returned to Col Camp by 4:00pm. Since we returned to Col Camp late in the afternoon, we opted to spend the night there and climb down the serac studded glacier to morain camp the next morning when everything was nice and frozen.