Fat lad on world tour S 2 E 31 Guatape Rock Colombia sunday bonus video

hi all here's part 31 from the second series from my "Fat lad on world tour" in this sunday bonus video i have a little walk up Guatape Rock in Colombia .
The Guatapé Rock , or Peñol Stone ( Tahamí language : Mojarrá ), is a 220-meter-high monolith , located in the municipality of Guatapé , Antioquia , Colombia . The El Peñol stone is a granite mass , composed of quartz , feldspar and mica , was first climbed on July 16, 1954 by a local resident, Luis Eduardo Villegas López . Currently, its summit can be accessed by climbing the 708 steps built into the monolith.
In the 50s it was climbed for the first time, it is said that it took more than 5 days. The land where the stone sits is private property. The current heirs of the stone are the Villegas family. Luis Villegas made the rock public in the 70s and in an alliance between the owner and the mayor of Guatapé, they began painting the rock with the name GUATAPÉ since the rock is actually located in the territory of the municipality of Guatape; however, because the stone was for a time part of the territory of the municipality of El Peñol and is still part of its identity (and even its name is Piedra del Peñól) said municipality managed to stop this with Law 23 of 1973, according to which no natural tourist site can be painted or crossed out.
The 'mirapiedra' has become a tourist attraction in the area, along with the dam that surrounds it. It is part of Colombia's cultural heritage and thousands of people from all over the world have visited the place to climb its 708 steps made of the same rock that forms it.
Dimensions
Volume: 22 million m³,
Density: 3000 kg/m³, with a total of 66 million tons.
Perimeter: 770 m.
Height above sea level 2137 m asl
Composition: granite (quartz, feldspar and mica). This rock structure is part of the Antioquian batholith .

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Isn’t it odd that human nature will have us on the ground looking up at the mountain, then we climb the mountain and look at the ground below?!⛰️🏔️ I try to conserve energy and usually skip the second step! 🤣😂 Cheers Andy.

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@@calsurflance5598 🤣🤣 yes me too most of the time 😁