
A new route was opened by the Italian trio formed by Matteo Della Bordella, Alessandro Baù, and Mirco Grasso. Their name: «Quién sigue?»
The extreme climbing season in Patagonia has begun for 2025. The three Italian climbers, with Matteo Della Bordella taking part in the climb, are starting 2025 with a new route on the Aguja Val Biois. The three reached the base of the face after a seven-and-a-half-hour approach on January 9 and, after opening and fixing the first three pitches, slept in a tent on the glacier.
The next morning they climbed again with jumars and opened the remaining 9 pitches, battling both technical difficulties and the bitter cold. When they reached the south ridge they decided to descend. Alessandro Baù told Planetmountain.com: «There was a strong westerly wind, but we were quite sheltered in the face. We didn’t reach the summit because of the wind, because we would have been on the edge.»
The new route, which they called «¿Quién sigue?», runs through a system of cracks parallel to La Torcida (Tom Ehrig, Felix Getzlaff, Lutz Zybell 01/2018) and shares a single belay, at the height of the pendulum, while the rest of the route is completely independent.
Its approximately 500 metres cover difficulties up to 7a and A1. “Starting the Patagonian season with this route was a good start, even though the weather was not on our side,” said Della Bordella.
“We took advantage of the weather window we had, even though the conditions were very cold and difficult. The route was a real adventure and the rope team worked very well.”In fact, this is the first time that the three of them have climbed together. Now a period of bad weather is affecting the Patagonian region, which is why they have all returned to El Chaltén.
For Della Bordella, the second phase of the expedition begins, with the expectation of the 6 boys from the Eagle Team, who are about to set off.
