Gwilym's Adventure Blog

Back in El Chorro to meet up with Jay and Anna for another week in the sun. A couple of multipitch routes (5 and 6 pitches) plus 12 single pitch routes ranging from 4c to 6b followed by a nice grade 3 Via Ferrata to finish. A couple of windy days that were best spent down low plus being bitten/stung by an unknown assailant give me a very swollen itchy ankle just added to the fun. I am now at Malaga airport waiting for a flight back to the UK

This sums it up   After a walk into to find a route (Italian Guide book writers are not good at directions!!) we arrived to find 14 other climbers in front of us so it was another day on the via ferrata and we took on the infamous Cesare Piazetta graded at 5C and at one time puported to be the hardest in the area. Well after a steep and strenous start it settled down and kept the interest going with a steep chimney and wobbly bridge

Another day of via ferrata as the weather forecast was not great. It actually turned out fine with only a small showerlater on. Another 3B called Brigata Tridentina which ended up crossing a rather scarey bridge.

  An epic journey which started at 16:30 on Sunday in Plymouth and ended 28 hours later in Corvara, Italy last night. Today Rich and I headed up on the cable car for some Via Ferrata on Piz de Lech. This was graded at 3B and was a great first day.