Living the dream...: Bolivia

Kayaking in Lake Titicaca

On certain holidays you can get your car blessed at the church. It makes it last longer and I´ve heard it is great for gas mileage. At 8 bucks a gallon every little bit helps.

Our bus getting a ride across the lake.

The start of our Huayna Potosi climb. Around 15,000 ft.

The day after Christmas. We had a huge snow storm on Christmas. There isn´t usually snow this far down.

Day 2 - Getting higher

2nd Camp - 16,850 ft. We didn´t go real far the first 2 days, mostly sat around and aclimated.

Day 3 - After a short night we started climbing at 1:30 am.

About 18,000 ft, slow going in deep crusty snow.

Daylight at 19,000 feet. Starting to wallow in the drifts.

Our trusty guide Johny. At 24 he was the youngest guide on the mountain, but he worked hard and did way more than his share of breaking trail.

7:00 am at 19,500 feet

Only 500 feet to go but had to turn around because of bad weather and too much snow.

Another pair working their way down the mountain, after we turned around everyone else followed. Unfortunately there was too much snow for anyone to summit that day.

Awesome ice formations.

Major deep crevasses. Picture doesn´t show it, but I wasn´t going to fall on to get a good photo. this one was probably 50 feet deep and we had to jump it.

A poster of our mountain.

The next morning headed to the Death Road for a bike ride.

We started at 15,500 feet and went down 12,000 feet in 63 kilometers!

Started out on the paved road with traffic. Super fast! Over 45 mph, passing the cars!

Borrowed a few pics here, we had someone taking pics for the group, but can´t load the disk here.

We turned off onto the one-lane gravel road once considered the world´s deadliest road. It is out of use now, but it was once responsible for an average of 80 deaths per year.