New climb on El Mocho in Patagonia by Nico Lewin, Ignacio Mulero, Leon Riveros

A few days after climbing Cerro Torre via the route Filo Sureste with Marc Toralles and Tasio Martin, Spain's Ignacio Mulero teamed up with Nico Lewin and Leon Riveros to establish a line he had noticed earlier on nearby El Mocho.

The new route is called Arigato Chalten and climbs the mountain's red north face, following a crack that runs from the bottom all the way to the top of the obvious pillar. The pillar terminates at about half-height, at which point Arigato Chalten joins Frader Pisafer for another 200m to reach the summit. The route was established during one short weather window, and freed when the weather cleared up again a few days later with difficulties up to 7c.

Writing to planetmountain, Mulero explained "Climbing with Leon and Nico was fun because they are mainly boulderers and they didn’t have much experience of this sort. Nico even had to learn how to rappel the day before! The six new pitches were climbed completely clean, without bolts or pegs. When I saw it from the ground during my approach to Cerro Torre I thought it might be harder, but when we opened it ground-up we realised that the wall is not as vertical as it seems and that the crack was bigger than we thought! Nevertheless, the crux pitch is circa 7c. The route is 100% recommendable and I hope people are motivated to go and repeat it."