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Ronald Mar 2, 2007, 3:05 AM

Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Just got news about the Russian Xtreme Project.

Valery Rozov climbed and wingsuit jumped one of the Torres del Paine (southern Chile) monoliths. He will be back in Moscow march 4th, so I assume we will hear & see more after that date.

Anyway, I take my hat of (again).

Ronald

torres-del-paine.jpg

obi Mar 2, 2007, 3:52 AM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

WOW! I am impressed.

DrThrill Mar 2, 2007, 6:16 AM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Great news! That rocks, literally, congrats Valery!

KrisFlyZ Mar 2, 2007, 6:57 AM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

That is awesome. Congrats

ToyMaker Mar 2, 2007, 7:15 AM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Thats a pretty technical climb... Im from Chile and I can tell you that much... so.. GOOD JOB!! There are many other places they could've tried though...

If anyone is planning on visiting on the near future, PM me Wink

Wink

nicrussell Mar 2, 2007, 9:39 AM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

i would take the easy way down too Tongue

Tongue

thats an impressive accomplishment for sure!

Base733 Mar 2, 2007, 3:47 PM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Very cool!

Valery Mar 4, 2007, 2:27 PM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Hi everybody!
We just back home. A few fotos from Torres del Paine (center tower) jump. It was very cold and very windy, but the wall just perfect! Total elevation 1400 m.

Valery.

Pered pryjkom.sm.jpg

Pryjok Torres del Pain.1.sm.jpg

Pryjok Torres del Pain.3.sm.jpg

Na voskhojdenii.sm.jpg

Vid Torres del Pain.sm.jpg

Spusk k exit.sm.jpg

Base733 Mar 4, 2007, 4:33 PM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Congrats Valery, great jump and inspiring photos! What route did you climb and how was the landing area?

Valery Mar 5, 2007, 1:12 AM

Re: [Base733] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

We did Bonington route. It`s from another side of the main wall. Two days climbing up, two days waiting in storm three pitches bellow the summit Smile

Smile

. The landing area was on the right side of the lake.

Valera prizemlenie.sm.jpg

robibird Phoenix Fly Mar 5, 2007, 1:41 AM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Bravo Valera!!!

meekerboy Mar 5, 2007, 3:30 AM

Re: [robibird] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Well done Valery. Another amazing effort.

rapaz Mar 5, 2007, 4:28 AM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Congrats!!!, brother, inspiring..., I take my hat off and rise a cup of good Argentinian wine mixed with Red Bull for you.

N.

Pendragon Mar 5, 2007, 6:10 AM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Which route did you take?

(not that there's any easy ones!)

ToyMaker Mar 5, 2007, 7:22 AM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Amazing Valery... Bravo.
Its very difficult to get nice jumpable weather in there.

Congrats!!
Gabriel

Ether Mar 5, 2007, 9:57 AM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Clueless whuffo question time -- how do you get your gear back down? Do you just hook it to a spare canopy, chuck it over and hope for the best?

I've been trying to figure out the logistics in doing a rock climbing excursion that ends in a jump. Short of having a non-jumper be the lackey to carry all the gear down, I don't see what else you could do other than toss it over. Even the gear for an easy sport climb (harness, a few ropes, small amount of protection) is (afaik) too much to jump with.

RiggerLee Mar 5, 2007, 10:31 AM

Re: [Ether] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

This is to Eather. You can jump with way more then that you woos.

Now on to the real subject. What was the weather like? How long was your weather window open? How long did the climb take you from camp?

Lee

TomAiello Mar 5, 2007, 11:24 AM

Re: [Ether] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

In reply to:

...having a non-jumper be the lackey to carry all the gear down...

That's by far the easiest, and in my experience, most common, method.

In reply to:

Even the gear for an easy sport climb (harness, a few ropes, small amount of protection) is (afaik) too much to jump with.

In general, all you need to jump with is either the rope or the rack (because if the other guy isn't rapping off, he can jump with the other one). A trad rack is kind of a pain (because of the snag potential, so you need to find a way to cover it), but a rope isn't too bad. The easiest way I've found to hide the rack from snags is to use a backpack type rope bag and put the whole rack in it, then wear it on the front for the jump.

sebaspqd Mar 5, 2007, 1:12 PM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Congrats from Brazil to the Russian Extreme Project

That jump was amazing... better than any of my dreams.

Sebastian

Ether Mar 5, 2007, 1:39 PM

Re: [RiggerLee] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

In reply to:

You can jump with way more then that you woos.

Oh yeah, I'm a total wuss!! Cool

Cool

it seemed like it would be too much, so I wanted to know if other people thought it was doable. From the replies so far (in this thread and PMs) all signs point to "yeah, you end up a bit like a human armadillo, but as long as you don't need to do serious tracking you'll be okay" (rephrased). Smile

Smile

fastpete Mar 5, 2007, 3:48 PM

Re: [Ether] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

really nice. congratz from finns....

RayLosli Mar 5, 2007, 8:59 PM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

REALLY NICE. That has to be very fulfilling to the sole when the day is done.
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boachanoff Mar 6, 2007, 6:30 AM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Congratulations or Pozdravlenia Valery Rozov.

Thank you sharing the pictures!!

Regards:Plamen

DrThrill Mar 6, 2007, 9:23 AM

Re: [Ether] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Apex base makes a special rig, the dpx that not only functions as a completely normal base rig but also expands in the back panel so one can carry quite a bit of gear with you. It is an evolutionary offspring of an older Moe Viletto design, then the BR Parapak. The dpx comes in two sizes, I can only speak for the smaller one, but I can easily carry one 60m rope and an entire rack of trad gear, climbing shoes, etc etc.

I guess they do not regularly sell this conatainer (yet?) but should be soon, and it might still be available/made for special requests.

http://www.apexbase.com/portal/commerce.asp?CatId=71&ProdId=ParaPak2

Wayne

cpoxon Sep 29, 2008, 5:57 AM

Re: [Ronald] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/...d=14739&Itemid=1

In reply to:

UNAUTHORIZED JUMPS LEAD TO INCREASED SECURITY AT TORRES DEL PAINE

Torres del Paine National Park administrators plan to increase park security next season after discovering that a group of six Russians conducted an unauthorized base jump off one of the park's steep mountain slopes last summer. Administrators plan to increase the number of park rangers and have asked the Carabineros (Chile's uniformed police) for help controlling climbing permits given to foreigners.

Park officials found out about the jump after the Russian adventurers posted their story online at a site called the Extreme Russian Project (http://en.ruexp.ru/climb/). The website recounts how the group climbed 14,000 meters up the side of one of the mountains in the national park so that one man could throw himself into the air, experiencing a 57-second free fall before opening his parachute 50 meters above sea level.

Prior to the jump, park rangers told the Russians that base jumping was prohibited in the park. The rangers forced the group leader to sign a document saying that he would not base jump and attempted to confiscate his parachute. According to park rangers, the leader handed over a special type of bag used in base jumping instead of his actual parachute and conducted the jump anyway.

This season, there will be 15 new park rangers monitoring climbers, who make up about 10 groups annually. Torres del Pain is the center of Region XII’s tourism industry. Last season (October-April) the park received 131,000 visitors.

Mikki_ZH Sep 29, 2008, 6:08 AM

Re: [cpoxon] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

cpoxon wrote:

According to park rangers, the leader handed over a special type of bag used in base jumping instead of his actual parachute and conducted the jump anyway.

Now thats funny... Smile

Smile

Wink

Smile

ZephyrNewYork May 6, 2011, 10:55 AM

Re: [Valery] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Valery,

Thanks for sharing the gorgeous pix. And belated congratulations :)

Spiderbaby May 6, 2011, 11:08 AM

Re: [ZephyrNewYork] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

ZephyrNewYork wrote:

Valery,

Thanks for sharing the gorgeous pix. And belated congratulations :)

4 year necro-bump! awesome.

tr027 May 6, 2011, 12:37 PM

Re: [Spiderbaby] Base Torres del Paine, Chile

Chilean MotorcycleBASE:

http://dailypicksandflicks.com/...cle-off-cliff-video/

http://www.slashcontrol.com/...ump-caught-on-camera