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Description"cirque of towers and mountains" just a short bus ride north of the comfortable town of Puerta Natales. Exceptional trekking with refugio huts perfectly spaced through out the park. Wildly quick and opposite type weather changes, - go fast. The most climbed area is the three towers, south, middle and north. All approached mostly for the Japanese basecamp. which is a very long one day hike from where the bus drops you off at the trail head which has a nice refugio and camping area. approaches from basecamp are about 2 hours, often folks set up a camp more near to the routes bases. Getting ThereFly to Punta Arenas, bus or car to Puerta Natales, then bus or car to the park. The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Torres Del Paine:
Monzino route (on North Tower) 5.10a WI1 Easy Snow Trad, Ice, Snow, Alpine, 6 pitches, 600 feet, Grade III
"Hasta Chonchi" East Face Torre Norte (VII,800 meters,5.11,A2+) 5.11 A2+ R Trad, Aid, Alpine, 15 pitches, 2600 feet, Grade VI
"Waiting for godot" East Face Torre Central (750M 7b/M6) 5.12 M6 Steep Snow Trad, Mixed, Snow, Alpine, 16 pitches, 2500 feet, Grade VI
Featured Route For Torres Del Paine
Monzino route (on North Tower) 5.10a WI1 Easy Snow International : South America : ... : Torres Del Paine
The first and second pitch out of the notch, ( see approach.), is the easy 5.10 pitch. then the rest of the pitches, about 5 to7 of them, wind around giant features, meandering there way to the summit block. On the summit block is a fun 5.9 face climb. there is something on the top that you can rap off of, I forget what it was....[more] Browse More Classics in International
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