Cerro Eléctrico NE (2183 m ü. M.)

First summit in 2025

Today the alarm went off early. More precisely at 3 o'clock, because the plan is to go with a mountain guide to the Cerro Eléctrico. It's 3:30 when the taxi driver picks us up. But where is the mountain guide? Shall we pick him up somewhere on the way to the starting point? We continue the ride in the dark, apparently half asleep because we don’t think to ask further. Once arrived and the taxi has left, we realize that something is wrong, because there is no trace of our guide. Now we have no choice, but to wait. He arrives some 15 minutes later with his own car and asks us visibly confused if we are his guests (we have already met the day before and discussed the ascent). He said he didn't hear his alarm clock and searched for us in all El Chaltén. In the end the confusion clears up and he sets off in a "Züri-Schritt" (maybe he wants to catch up the 15 minutes). We walk the first 45 minutes in the dark and windy forest, until the start of the rocky ascent. As promised, there is only one direction from now on, namely upwards. The path leads through steep "jungle sections". The sun appears and it looks like we are having a magnificent day! Once we reach the glacier we mount our crampons and fixe ourselves on the rope. The next two to three hours are a steep climb across the glacier, with some impressive crevasses and faces up to 45 inclination. The view is great and the view of the Fitz Roy is getting better and better, with a light and gentle fog tail at the top of the mountain. We climb the last meters to the summit and reach our goal, the Cerro Eléctrico around 09:40. What a panorama! Our smiles are accordingly wide and the feeling of having arrived makes us a little proud. "Es isch nit imr ohne gsi", especially the steep final section. After some summit photos, enjoying panorama and lunch break, we go the same way down. It goes surprisingly well through the just-oh-so softened snow, jumping down two or three times above glacier crevasses. Towards the bottom it gets warmer and warmer, we are soon only dressed in shorts and shirt (well, only I, Andreas).
We enjoy a well-deserved gelato in El Chaltén and an adventurous day with many impressions is slowly coming to an end. Juhui, the first summit in 2025 has been completed and our resolution to do more mountaineering already comes to effect.Læs mere