Imagine if you could climb to the tippy top of the sharp tooth that is Cerro Torre, and then be back on flat ground in a matter of minutes? Seems too good to be true for most of us with Patagonia dreams. But that’s exactly how it was for Fabian Buhl.
After summiting Cerro Torre at the end of last week, the German climber, 29, rigged up the paraglider he had toted up to the summit and was back down on the Torre Glacier 17 minutes later. He is the first person to paraglide from the summit after climbing to the top. Asked what appeals to him about the climbing-gliding combination, he told Rock and Ice, “You are midday in Chalten instead of rappelling and walking for 1.5 days!”
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