The Japanese team consisting of Takaaki Nagato and Jumbo Katsutaka Yokoyama have climbed two splitter new routes in Patagonia.
According to PlanetMountain.com, the climbers made a fast town-to-town ascent of The Last Gringo Standing and the possible first free ascent at 5.11c. In 2012, Canadian alpinist Carlyle Norman died after a rockfall accident on the route. In 2015, The Banff Centre announced their new Writing Scholarships in Memory of the Adventures of Carlyle Norman.
Takaaki and Jumbo then climbed a new 400-metre 5.12 up the west face of Aguja El Tridente called Knobmania. Over a week later, they climbed Pilar Canino, a 600-metre 5.12 up the west face of Cerro Piergiorigio. For the full story, visit PlanetMountain.com here.
