Photos by gerglenroc

D.Marra solos up the 5.9 crack at Drive-In to get a late autumn TR going for us all. Hey thanks Diamond.

Claire gets a TR from Dave. You can't tell from the low light and autumn alpenglow but the girlz pregnant.

Dave peers down upon his barely attentive belayer as the wall behind sits splahed with the colorful renderings of plastic gym holds bolted onto the wall. Dave is on a real piece of rock. This place is good fun.

Dave Marra gives us a pep talk on the first attempt on a 1000m ice/alpine line up the east face of Mt.Inflexible. He later did the first ascent during better conditions and the route is called FunFun.

Old Fiere rock hoppers perched on a cairn up the North Gulley of Limestone Peak. You go left along a ledge from the overhang above and up a ribbed groove.

Struggling over the crux of the Defiant outcrop with a terrible version of a bouldering pad below.

Illimani is nice backdrop for the cereal bowl shaped slums of the capital La Paz. Wandering into unknown 'burbs is a great way to get your butt kicked- anything for a photo!

the Trump Cabin boulder in the Highwood area near Cowbell Crag. A easy 10min. stroll from the car to secluded spot. Fun going over the overhang. topo at: http://www.live-the-vision.com/cms/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=35&func=selectfolder&cat=1

Age is taking its toll! This is from 1992, and my back muscles don't flex so well anymore-I gotta get out more!

Getting the first good jug on My Crack before heading out up the sweet jam crack. This wall is a 1/2 hr from main Haadrin Beach, which is at the top left of the photo.(1992)

A great morning warm-up, but may now be off-limits? In 1992, a local was charging tourists a few bucks to TR the on this pillar!

Cyro G. of California nearing the end of this long route in the corridor left of Princess Cave. This is not the route's name and I can't remember it.

May not be the right named route, it has been a long time, but nonetheless on the 1-2-3 wall's right end.

Long way to Merapi, slog up the slopes and hope to god you don't die from the top blowing off this thing!

After going up the black slopes of Mt.Pacaya behind me in 1991. Easy grunt up steep black rocks to view the top blowing up, very cool. That is lava and steam flowing down the side.

Unless you have a very good local driver, you will be scratching your head truing to find your way about around the Salar. You will need a map to locate any of these high peaks, and there are many of them scattered about. Expect many car breakdowns if the vehicles can't handle the lack of O2 going into the carburetor.

A fun, centuries old alpine route(Haha) up Huanay behind the ruins.

Last few feet to the summit of Huanay going up the Inca staircase them forged through the last part of the peak. The rest is using chains etc. View from relaxing on the small granite dome boulders of the summit. Can't remember the name of the snowy peak behind. That is not a chalk bag in my hands! but a bag of coca leaves.

Peru's highest peak, Huascaran, in the middle of this photo taken from a plane just over the Peruvian coastline!

Photoshop warning, please proceed.... A burned in Huascaran coming outta the haze from the rooftop of my hotel in Huarez in 1991. Shows how close the peak is away from the main climbers hub-Huarez. After trying to go up the west face route, we slept before Gargantua shy of about 1/2hrs walk so we slept under some big seracs near the end of the icefall and got pummeled throught the night of things going bump, then spraying debris onto us. Our tent was flat to our face for about 12 hours, just say we were in uttter horror. My face burned bad and peeled bad from the intensive heat radiating off the glacier. It's 2005 and I am still alive though!

Taking a nice rest before going up a few hundred feet of slabs on the west face of Huascaran just before Camp 1. That is Cordillera Negro behind, across the valley. I am about to step foot on the Cordillera Blanca. Do you like the 1980s green suit?

That is likely what my guide was cursing as I am switching from gloves to no gloves, pick placement to pick placement. But I was suffering from edema and horrified after sleeping through 12 hours of seracs crashing down around our tent.

Photo of the wall right of Dom's Cave. Some good 10s are on the left and a really nice bouldering traverse takes up the bottom right side of the photo.

Fun seaside boulder between Haadrin and the main town(easy walkoff). Its a long walk but worth it: constant beaches, some busy some not, many boulders along the way, many topless women. However this photo was taken in 1992 so maybe there is a huge resort in the way.

Looking left from the famous Haadrin beach to a forested hillside that has many boulder(hard to see in this crappy pic)and a cool traverse closer down by the seawall, but you should do this in rock shoes. The small beach seen on the peninsula's right is where you'll get to- in 1992 there was an abandoned bungalow place hit by a storm some gringos where living in for free. You can swim by the big boulders or do the very awesome crack climb on the beach's left side.