Nevado Illusion (5,230m), Condoriri, Bolivia

[@tritzispoosa]

The top sure was spectacular. Wow. Thank you for sharing 🇨🇦

[@PhilAndersonOutside]

Excellent video. Straight forward, very clear.

[@robinanoble4664]

Another good video which I enjoyed again. Xx

[@humbertsmith8864]

Richard I love your vlogs. Thanks for all the details you provide. I am doing the Annapurna Circuit in Dec and if it goes well I would love to try some climbing of lower and trekking peaks. Thanks for the inspiration and humility.

[@richard_pattison]

Thank you or the kind comments and encouragement. Good luck with your Annapurna circuit, hope you get good weather and have a great experience. I haven't been to the Annapurna area, but have researched it a number of times and hope to go one day - lots of 6,000m peaks along the way that are good objectives e.g. Pisang, Chulu West/East/Far East, Thorungtse

[@humbertsmith8864]

@@richard_pattison Will look those up...thx!

[@luchol4847]

Great video!! very informative. Going there this summer... How did you find information about that route on white pyramid? Or did you just go looking for one?

[@richard_pattison]

Thank you for watching and for the comment. We planned to attempt the Cabeza de Condor on our last day, however, at base camp we met a group who had just retreated from their attempt finding chest deep snow on the approach. So we decided to try something else rather than try and likely fail to reach the Cabeza. We had viewed the white pyramid from 180 degrees while climbing past on the way to/from Pequeno Alpamayo, so decided to try a traverse, we had no route beta, simply climbed what we saw. Hope you have great weather and great climbing for your trip, climb safe, Rich.

[@jyotinaylor]

Looks great. When you abseil down, do you leave your rope or is there a way of getting it back?

[@richard_pattison]

Hi, on popular mountains there is typically an anchor at the abseil points - a sling/piece of tape wrapped around a boulder. You feed your rope through the loop then double it over, abseiling down using both strands, then at the bottom pull one of the strands through to retrieve the rope, leaving the anchor/tape behind. For longer abseils you'll use 2 ropes tied together, then you need to remember which side of the anchor the knot is on to pull the correct strand. Rich.

[@jyotinaylor]

@@richard_pattison Thank you always wondered how the last man gets the rope back. It all makes sense now. Great videos please keep them coming.

[@covid-fo6br]

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