Photo: Tim Kemple

When we last blogged, our team was rousted from a two-week storm fester by a prediction of good weather – always an elusive concept down here. Our last week in Argentina, vague reports of “mini-windows” lured us across the glacier and into the rime-slathered mountains with tenuous hopes of a last ditch effort to climb – and film – in Patagonia.

As predicted, the windows were short, and when they closed, they slammed. We battled through howling, sleepless nights and drenching rappels in a manic effort to exploit this one last chance. The clock was ticking. There were moments when we wondered if it would be a total shut down.

But then the weather and the climbers pulled through. As the clouds held back and the sun shone bright over two days, Cedar and Renan sent a killer first ascent on Mochito. Then Stanley wingsuited from the summit of El Mocho, one of the few BASE jumps anyone has done in the range. As the chute opened, Roberta’s ashes were released into the mountains. The thermals almost blew Stanley back to Chalten, but the Andean condors guided him to safety. He stuck it. We stuck it. Tim Kemple (kemplemedia.com) killed it with the pics. Check out a few in the slideshow below. And don’t miss Renan and Cedar’s video blog, Vertical Carnival. Off to Brazil!

Tim Kemple slide show: