Hello again. Have moved south from the jungle and have been doing a lot more climbing. We climbed up into the Andes for our first crag near a town called San Juan. The crag was in a gorgeous canyon with waterfalls and our bush camp was underneath the crag. A group of clearly very poor but fantastic Ecuadorian children came down to see us when we were setting up and having chatted nicely to us for half an hour demanded we gave them 1 dollar per tent. We negotiated and managed to get all 14 of us to stay for $5 for 3 nights, not bad. The climbing here was super crimpy and at just under 4000 metres every move left me breathless. Halfway through our stay me and Scottish Callum left the group for an attempt on Chimbarazo )Ecuadors highest volcano at 6300 metres. We only had a one day window to climb the mountain and get back to the truck before they departed for the next venue. Unfortunately the lack of time was our undoing as Callum got altitude sickness and started throwing up everywhere as we got just above 5000 metres, we had to descend. My dissapointment was short lived as I returned to the crag and climbed my first South American 7a, doesnt sound much but at altitude its pretty tricky, so I was stoked!
I have put in a link to facebook to share some photos with you, hope it works!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150268186878780.335221.501123779
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