Alpinist\u00a0has a preliminary report about the first "by fair means" ascent of the Compressor Route on\u00a0the SE Ridge of Cerro Torre, by Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk.
\nLast year the team\u00a0of the\u00a0Canadians Chris Geisler and Jason Kruk came a whisker away from success, without using a single bolt of Maestri for progression, up to about 40 meters from the end of the Headwall, after which there is only the ice mushroom. Failed to complete their challenge, but it was\u00a0a great result in every case.\u00a0
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\nBefore of the Canadians, \u00a0in 1999 Ermanno Salvaterra and Mauro Mabboni were thinking about this important goal, \u00a0by opening a variant of the compressor route
\nBut it was in 2007 that there is a big step forward, with Americans Zach Smith and Josh Wharton, who climb the Salvaterra \/ Mabboni route, then inaugurate a new itinerary \u00a0that lends itself well to be free climbed and which differs\u00a0a lot from Maestri route.
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\nThe two arrive up to the top of the first pitch \u00a0of the Headwall and 4 pitches\u00a0from the end, without using even a bolt \u00a0of the compressor route; they reached the top of the route, but began clipping bolts in the final four pitches due to weather complications.
\nFor the record, Smith and Wharton had proposed to reduce the bolts on Maestri line, generating very strong contrasts in the community of climbers.
\n3 weeks ago the team of Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk established a new route on Aguja de l’S.
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