Andreas: It’s not possible to ski here?
Local: No
Andreas: No?
Local: It’s finished. The season is finished.
Andreas Fransson and Bjarne Sahlén’s ‘ski’ trip through South America just keeps getting better and better. And no, I don’t mean the skiing…
How does a 40k, 2000 vertical meter walk-in sound to you? Yeah, I think I’ll give that one a miss as well.
In this episode, Andreas is gunning for the south face of 6720m Mercedario, the eighth highest mountain in the Andes. In the vid, Andreas calls it ‘The Dream Face’ but this ice sheet with a bit of sugar on top looks anything but dreamy to me.
But the greatest thing about this entire ordeal is how the attitudes of our two intrepid adventurers never falter and each new roadblock just seems to make them laugh and become that much more determined to make it happen.
Gotta love these guys, especially because they’re not afraid to nude up to liven up an episode.