Pico Austria

After taking a day to find somewhere to stay, we headed out to climb Pico Austria. The mountain forms part of the Andes range north of La Paz and was the highest peak that any of us in the group had done before with a maximum altitude of 5350m above sea level.

Hiking above 5000m was hard work, and you can feel the lack of oxygen, even for all of us who had all spent about 3 weeks over 3000m in Peru.

The views of the lake, glaciers and mountains from the top though made it all worth it.Read more