Video
Nov 2, 2021
3,776 m, three hours forty after sunrise
09:52 on 2 November 2021. From first light on the slope to the summit was three hours and forty minutes. The summit is a snowfield, not a point — wind-worked névé that goes on far enough that you walk on it looking for the highest bit. Lago Huechulafquen sits directly below to the east. West, across the border, the Chilean volcanoes stand up out of the haze one after another; on a clear day people say you can see the Pacific from here. In the reflection in my glasses you can see the rest of the group still coming up the last of it.