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Location: Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs, Charlevoix, Québec Grade: IV, WI5+ Height: 330m (1,100 http://www.neice.com/2002/e-guide/ClassicClimbs/LaPommedOr.htm

After straight 8 hours of jungle and another 8 hours of rocks, Antonio, Luis, Mauricio and me made it to the summit. It was not very hard, but it was very long and tedious. At our left we could see the crater of this active volcano. Unfortunatelly it was cloudy. This volcano has only about 3900 mts. of altitude. What makes it hard is that you start walking from a very low point of altitude.

I took the picture from the way down of the reventador. I was exhausted at this point, we were rushing before the sun goes away. We had just one flash light, and believe me, you dont want to be in the dark in the middle of the jungle. So when I took this picture everybody was mad and screaming at me not to stop walking, but hey! it is the only picture we got, it was raining most of the time.

This is the Ruminiahui mountain. I took the picture from the lake at the Cotopaxi volcano. I am at about 4400 mts. of altitude. Around this area is posible to do biking, treking and camping. This is one of the many mountains of the andes that you can see from Cotopaxi.

This is my sister Alex taking a picture of the great Cotopaxi, the most popular volcano in Ecuador and one of the highests in the world. Im taking the picture. Right behind me there is a lake and we are at about 4400 mts. from sea level. It takes 20 min. to drive to this lake from the main highway, and it takes another 25 min. to get to a parking place where we begin our journey to the cotopaxi summit.

The "tooth of the giant" from the aguille du midi around 12000 ft. at sunup

Doing some Glacier training in Valle Blanche near the Aguille du midi in france

Climbing some alpine ice on Mont Blanc du Tacul somewhere around 13000 ft on the route

This is looking up at Warbonnet. This shot is looking southwest, showing the east side of the peak. The plume on the left side of the peak creates a gully between the plume and the peak that makes for a heinous approach.

Patrick above the dissapointment cleaver on the way to Mt. Rainier's summit.

Get adjusted, early, to the huge run outs (100ft plus). The climbing is very solid and confidence inspiring. Don't get off route like I did after pitch 4. It's really not off route, just a 5.7R variation

My brother Doug finishing the technical portion of the route. Enjoy the long steep walk to the summit from here. It never seems to end.

I'm at the finish of the first pitch of the route. It's a good warm up for the traversing above. I skipped the pro in the roof and felt fine without it.

This is for my profile pic. It was taken halfway up the North Buttress of Tahquitz rock via one of the Lark routes. The climb was really easy, but fun and scenic.

Pinky on the way to the top of the first Sellatower. I think its the direct south wall.

This is me on a backpacking trip to Scotchman Peak near Sandpoint, Idaho (the Selkirks). Photo taken by Corey Raivio "coreyr" -- this was an amazing area to climb. It is a "must do" for photographers and getting in shape for Alpine. Cheers!

Like the nose piece? Longest facial hair I've ever had - note how I can't call it a beard :)

Notice how it's warm enough down low for lakes to form on the Nebesna's surface.

The Nebesna is the huge glacier that we were deposited on days earlier. It runs many miles North into Canada.

Here we have just past the dangerous section of the lower route, ascending below many large seracs on the west face of Blackburn. This is just after the one hour period of twilight during the early Alaskan summer.

This is looking south at the North Ridge of Blackburn in late spring of '99. Due to nasty avalanche conditions we didn't ascend above around 11,500 feet on either the North Ridge or a NW spur of that ridge. Barely visible in this photo is our path around the right side of the first obstacle. Once on the slope above we retreated due to suspect slabs in the snowpack. Later on the NW spur we safely released a slide below us, retreating in fear of setting off a slide above us.

This is looking west our high camp around 10,500 feet. Due to nasty avalanche conditions we didn't ascend above around 11,500 feet on either the North Ridge or a NW spur of that ridge.

This is looking west from the ridge just above our high camp. The relief below us here was intense.

I took this photo from the plane on our trip home. Our attempted route, the North Ridge, is partially obscured by clouds left of the summit plateau.

Profile pic for Alpinerocket. This photograph was taken by K9rocko on the CMC route. The cloud in the background was building right off the Falling Ice Glacier. It was quite impressive.