Para Mono Andes

Mono, there's an easier way up...;-)

Mono, hay una manera más fácil encima de la montaña:) Por supuesto, soy el bromear justo... la subida soy 3/4 de la recompensa.

 

 

**Please forget large on black...

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...or B l a c k M a g i c

 

 

Up from the Chitina River, parked at the top of Hawkins glacier, looking at the south flank of the Twaharpies Mountains in the University Range of the St. Elias Mts. in Wrangell St. Elias National Park, Alaska.

 

Height is deceiving: that's 7,000 feet of vertical in the background to the top of Aello Peak, in the upper-right.

 

For plane buffs...that's noted Alaskan bush pilot Paul Claus and one of his completely stripped-down Cessna 185's; the thing has no electronics - just wires - is hand-propped, and weighs a little less than the Sunday paper.

 

Trip of a lifetime...we were 'pre-season' up there, and had Paul to ourselves for a week, flying all over St. Elias, Bagley Ice Field, Malaspina Glacier, Kayak Island...anywhere there was 50' or so to land.

Done