Patagonia’s Potter-Davis Compared to Yosemite’s Rostrum
Veteran alpinists Colin Haley and Fabi Buhl are currently in South America where they've repeated a test-piece on Aguja Poincenot
Colin Haley and Fabi Buhl have repeated The Potter-Davis on the north face of Aguja Poincenot in Patagonia. It was first climbed by Dean Potter and Steph Davis in a 25-hour camp to camp push at V 5.11 C1 WI4.
Haley is the latest to agree with the comparison of the granite alpine route to the classic route on the north face of the Rostrum in Yosemite. Haley said, “The route was challenging, sustained, and very high quality. The comparisons that have been made to the North Face of The Rostrum in Yosemite are well deserved.”
In the 2002Â American Alpine Journal, Davis wrote, “Above, the climbing became more difficult and harder to protect, without a direct crack system for the next pitch. We found no more anchors as we continued up steeper rock into a massive roof system, which eventually took us directly onto the summit by evening.”
About the massive roof system, the route description on PataClimb reads, “By crawling up into and behind the left most crack, and then riding pony out along the top of a rock bridge one manages to climb out of the roof. One final easy pitch leads to the summit.” In 2022, Canadians Ripley Boulianne and Mateo Esposito made the first ascent of The Power of Independent Trucking on Aguja Poincenot’s north face at a 600-metre ED- 5.9+.
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