Cerro de Don Lauro Rock Climbing

High-up incredible limestone wall with an overview of San Cristóbal. Mostly long routes, often with very tecnical sequences on small crimps and feets. You can find fossiles in many parts in the rock. In the rainy season (June to October) try to start early and be back before 2 pm. In most cases it starts raining around this time. You can camp directly by the wall or on top of the hill. Both sides are very nice to stay, but only recommendable in the dry season.

The entire hill is private property of the local medicine man Don Lauro. He takes care of the hill since decades and we should do that do. Please leave no trash and treat the place and his inhabitants with respect.

History

El "Cerro de Don Lauro" is a magic place. Deep in the forrest, surrounded by promelias and orquides, rises up a 35 meter rock face. You can spot it already from far away. The beauty of the place is not only attracting climbers. People from all over the world visit this place for spiritual reasons every year. The local medicine man Don Lauro is a very famous "doctor" and organizes ceremonies on his private property.

From 2008 to 2012, Grupo Escala Chiapas and Carlos Macotela where opening the first 7 routes at the crag. Very nice lines and easy accesable also for beginners. Later on, in 2018, Sofia Tapia Garcia, Martin Siller and Lucho Birkner where checking out also the steeper mittle part and the roof part at the very right of the wall. The result was spectacular. Within one week they opend 8 new routes, one of them, "Ek Balam", is the hardest line of Chiapas until today. Two years later, Martin Siller and Carsten Thess were equipping also the last missing climbs at the crag.

For more information check also thecrag.com/climbing/mexico… or ask the local route setters https://www.facebook.com/Vertigorockclimbing.