{"id":71857,"date":"2022-12-30T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T08:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersweb.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=71857"},"modified":"2022-12-30T01:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T01:20:18","slug":"expeditions-of-the-year-colin-haley-supercanaleta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/expeditions-of-the-year-colin-haley-supercanaleta\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Expeditions of 2022, #2: First Winter Solo of Fitz Roy’s \u2018Supercanaleta\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Haley\u2019s September expedition to Patagonia to solo the \u201cSupercanaleta\u201d had all the makings of a classic: close-lived experience on the route, overtones of death, and drama leading to grave concerns.<\/p>\n

The route stats: 1,600m, 5.9, WI4, M5-6. It splits the west face of Fitz Roy, taking a steep, deep gully more or less directly to the tower summit. Complicated tracts of shattered granite are the typical medium. Several hundred metres of gendarmes (a series of pillars that block progress) guard the summit.<\/p>\n

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The west face of Fitz Roy, and Supercanaleta. Topo: Rolando Garibotti<\/p><\/div>\n

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No one had ever tried to climb the behemoth alone in winter<\/a> before Haley. Very few had attempted to solo it at all.<\/p>\n

Haley pulled off the feat on Sept. 19. The veteran alpinist later wrote that he “felt very, very far away from everything” when standing alone on the Fitz Roy summit in the blood-red sunset.<\/p>\n