Timrazine Canyon, Capitan Tajin.
By Francesco Fazzi, Italy
Climbing almost every day from October 5 till the 17th, Abigail Pickett from France and Andrea Cattarossi, Daniele Geremia, Silvano Gosso, Marco Zaffiri, and I from Italy repeated beautiful routes and over three days created our own. This route is situated in Timrazine Canyon, known colloquially as Canyon Apache after the name of its most famous route, opened in 2003 by Arnaud Petit, Michel Piola, and Bênoit Robert (6c+, 6b obl, 355m). Our new line lies 30 minutes walk from the village, on the true right wall (facing downstream) of the canyon. It is just beyond L’enfant du Sable (7a, 6c obl, 390m, Simone Sarti-Maurizio Oviglia, 2004, on-sight without using bolts) and the giant boulder that blocks the gorge. We climbed and equipped the 320m-high wall in eight pitches from the ground up, using 8mm bolts…. (read more)












![Gargitter - Ritacuba RLs(6x4) Ritacuba Blanco, east face: (1) El Llano en Llamas (Anker [solo], 1996). (2) Viviendo Entre Tinieblas (González Rubio-Mazzieri-Wilke, 2001). (3) Buscando la de Anker (Caceres-González Rubio, 2008). (4) Tierra de Condores (Calderon-Gargitter-González Rubio-Kehrer, 2010). 2010 expedition photo](http://aaj.americanalpineclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Gargitter-Ritacuba-RLs6x41-300x200.jpg)






























