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Arwa Spire
The plan was to climb the 1000 meters high North Face on Arwa Spire, 6193 meters,
a impressive granite peak in the indian Garwhal Himalaya. Together with the
bavarian climber Peter Anezenberger they planned to do a free ascent of the route
'Capsico', a route which was opened in 2002 by swiss climbers. And it seemed to
be quite possible to freeclimb the long and obvious cracksystem on that monolithic
buttress.
After acclimatisation and transporting all the necessary gear to the base of the
wall bad weather was coming in. meters of fresh snow put an end to all free climbing
dreams. In fall, the route does not get any sun, so even the good weather could not
change the wintry conditions any more. Every little hold, every single crack had
were packed in snow and low temperatures made it necessary to switch over to aidclimbing.
Finally, Thomas, Alexander and Peter successfully repeated the route 'Capsico' and
reached the west summit of Arwa Spire.
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