Sebastian Muñoz, Osa ma non troppo 7b/A3
At the turn of January and February 2015 SINGING ROCK ambassador Sebastian Muñoz and his friends Orlando Lopez and Fabian Londoño attempted to climb free the big wall route Osa ma non troppo on the east face of Cerro Cota 2000 (Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile).At last they didn't climb free the whole line, nevertheless the repeat is a great achievement. Congratulations and hats off!
Read Seba's report about the second ascend of Osa ma non troppo:
OSA MA NON TROPPO. Cerro Cota 2000.FREE!!@@###
It s always nice to take a real shower after a month living in caves and climbing Big Walls, feels a bit different to start the day sit in front the computer collecting in a few words the last intense moments of our
last adventure in the east face of Cerro Cota 2000, Torres del Paine National Park / ChileI met my Colombian Friends, Orlando Lopez and Fabian Londoño in Puerto Natales and we together, hoped to climb FREE, a beautiful route called OSA MA NON TROPPO, 700 meters, and difficulties of 7b and A3, climbed in 2007 by Italians. Fabio Leoni, Elio Orlandi, Michell Cagol and Rolando Larcher. The route is located just left of COTA's central pillar.
We began climbing in capsule style on January 29 and spent 6 nights in our DOUBLE portaledge at pitch 7. (Hard to belive but we even had some room left!!!)
Because there are no ledges, and therefore no snow to melt, we had really good workout time hauling almost 30 litres of water :) to our upper balcony.Even though we try FREE all pitches (exept pitch 3), we did not succeed in our original plan, we felt a bit tired of hiking, carrying loads and hauling, also Orlando had injured his hand during the hauling quest and Fabian, after a 5 meters fall injured his ankle, unable him for any hard Free push.
The rock was nearly always fantastic, allowing some unreal sustained free climbing, particularly on the crux 10th pitch - the Changing Dihedral - where a long sequence of hard moves across an overhanging section link two crack systems. Good job by the Italians… amazing line !!!!
We reached the summit on February 4 with interesting windy conditions…We all were so happy to partially achieve our objective of one of the hardest pure free climbing in Paine, and only surpassed by routes such by Riders on the Storm and South African on the east face of the Central Tower.
We believed that the route (exept pitch 3) could go free…. !!!
Life smiles!!
Sebastian Muñoz
SINGING ROCK Ambassador
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