Alone and without a guide on Mexico's third highest mountain - Iztaccihuatl
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ค. 2024
- I'll be honest, this trip was a big deal for us.
It's been years since either of us had a personal best in getting to a new altitude, with my highest point reached being Mont Blanc and Viv's being Pichincha. We were thrilled.
Four months ago I had no idea that Mexico had such high mountains/volcanoes, and once I found out about some of these they quickly became at the top of my bucket list, specifically Iztaccihuatl and Pico de Orizaba.
Being alone and without a guide in a summit attempt for the third highest mountain in Mexico was a dream.
The climb is amazing. The ridge to Iztaccihuatl's summit feels endless, but the views of the surrounding valleys and Popocatepetl make the effort worth it.
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Wonderful storytelling. Thank you for sharing your journey with all of us!
Thank you for your comment, happy you enjoyed it!
Hello again!!! I just made it to the summit of Izta last weekend, just like I told you on the video of Pico de Orizaba. I just wanted to thank you for the good wishes, and let you know that this video was also VERY informative to me. It makes much more sense to watch it afterwards!
You're soooo right about the headaches! After setting camp over the Refugio de los 100 area, a snowstorm hit us. I couldn´t sleep because I had never experienced a snowstorm in a tent at 4700 m jajaja but anyways I woke up at 2 am with a TERRIBLE headache. I was not fully acclimatized and about to call off the climb because I wasn´t sure that I wanted to have my first snow experience climbing such a mountain (i've never been in snow ever before!!!) and with altitude sickness, but anyway my teammates got my back and we did it. For sure, our mountain guide had to put up with our grumpy attitudes, but I guess it's part of his job and we thanked him after the climb.
It was the most tiring experience of my life but I was definitely worth it. I fell waist deep into a snow covered crevasse on the glacier de la panza, and coming back from the summit, my crampon slipped on the ramp that goes down to the glacier (14:56) and I started sliding real fast! fortunately I practiced some self arrests with the ice axe on the way to summit. Little I knew they were going to save me just a couple hours later! Everything was captured on my gopro and one day I'll make a video of my experience.
Hats off to you guys cause you climbed Izta with your full backpacks!!! that must have been grueling!!
OMG mate that sounds like an EXTREME adventure !!! hahaha. I'm glad you're ok and that you persevered.
Mountains in bad weather are absolutely terrifying, well done on soldiering on!
Best thing to do is to think about everything that happened and how you can work on improving things so that next time it goes more smoothly.
Big well done again and thanks for letting me know how it all went!💪
This is absolutely stunning. I could feel your exhaustion towards the end!!
On the glacier, on the way back there was a point where my legs legitimately didn't respond :/
Love your adventures Cristea!
Thanks Ash!
Did this long time ago (Izta and Orizaba). That up and down roller coaster near the summit was really tough on me. My guide said Izta is a climb both on the way up and down :) I was surprised that I had a harder time than at Orizaba
100%, we did too. I do think it's also harder because you're not as acclimatised as when you eventually get to Orizaba. Thanks for watching!
Best vid yet 🎉
Great vid, enjoyed it!
Thanks for watching!
Now you can go to Colombia and climb the Santa Marta's about 4000 more feet in altitude . Can see the ocean also .
Nice climbing!!! The cross you passed after the shelter (Refugio 19 de los 100), is the Cruz de Guadalajara, named after 11 students from Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara died frozen in the middle of a storm, they sat there and wait, hopping the storm ends to be able to watch the trail but the hipotermia killed them first. Now is a good reminder of what could happend if you don't take the propper safety meassures
Wow, that is a very sad story... Thank you for sharing that 🙏🏻
Great video, greetings from Costa Rica from a costarrican-mexican 😎✌🏽. I really like the footage, music and the storytelling , Iztaccihuatl it's on my list to climb soon and Orizaba Peak too. I am going to follow your adventures
Thank you mate! Both are amazing trips, you'll love them. I'm actually coming to Costa Rica in December and will do Cerro Chirripo, can't wait 🔥
@@TraintoSummit It's going to be my first time on Chirripó too, on December 12-15th ✌🏽😎 the highest peak on my country. Keep in touch
@@TraintoSummit if you need any help, guide, something related in San José city count on me.
@@robsancar Thanks a lot mate, will have you in mind! Have fun, that peak looks incredible👌
nice work on this. researching for my summit planned in Feb
Thanks mate. Big fan of your work, looking forward to seeing what you put out on Mexico!
Which week are you going? Would love to meet up and might be down there at that time
Not sure this has been written here, but you did make it to the true summit. The one you pointed is another, perhaps more impressive, but not as high summit.
That made my day. Thank you!
Yeah, this was amazing, again, thank you for taking us with you, on this journey. About what you ate, the same they do in the army when they cannot make fire. again, amazing, thanks man!
Love my mash mate😂
its not that remote, it's literally inbetween 2 of Mexico's biggest and most prosperous cities including the capital. The basecamp is also busy with loads of people, police and rescue teams.
good video , I really want to do this hike but it looks hard .
With proper training and maybe 3-4 days of acclimatisation in the area prior you can do it 💪🏽 Thanks for watching!
You guys did it great, Iztaccíhuatl is my favorite mountain. Bro, can you tell me what brand is your sunglasses? I’m looking for that kind of model.
Thank you! Vallon is the brand 👍🏻
You can always drive up into the crater of Toluca ,4th or 5th highest ( higher than Whitney )
Nevado de Toluca and La Malinche are definitely on the list for our next Mexico trip. Thanks for watching!
Love the vid, thx for sharing, just wondering; why did you not use a guide?
We like the freedom and challenge of doing these peaks ourselves. We only use guides when the routes are extremely difficult or too complex to plan/route find. Thanks for watching!
Awesome man, congrats! How does it compare to Pico de Orizaba in terms of difficulty? I just did Pico a few weeks ago. Izta may be a good one to do in the future!
Thank you for watching mate! We both found Izta more difficult than Orizaba. The approach to Refugio de Los 100 is a mission in itself, compared to being driven to the base camp of Orizaba (then on the second day on Izta we didn't have transport so we ended up going all the way back to Paso de Cortez, took us like 14 hr total haha). The biggest factor I'd say though was that we didn't have much acclimatization prior to Izta as we did with Orizaba... That being said, it's TOTALLY worth it! I hope you make it there someday man & let me know if you do!👊
@@TraintoSummit Thanks for your answer. Interesting to hear that you found Izta more challenging. I agree that acclimatization is very important. Your videos are great man. Good luck with your future hikes!
Incredible video! Why did you have to start as early as 3am the second day?
Thanks! We didn't have any transportation and wanted to make sure we get back to Paso de Cortés while there was still light outside. It was the right decision since there was no one in the parking lot on the way back and it took us 14 hours in total to Paso de Cortés 😅
So, basically if you have 2 free days in Mexico city, it's Iztaccihuatl! It seems close to the city.
I'd definitely take 3 days to do it. We went and did a hike in the first day up to 3700m around Paso de Cortes, but they're plenty of other day trips to that height from México City too! You can do it in 2 days but the headache would be real 😂😧
Is that peak glaciated? What time of year did u visit?
Yes it has a glacier at the top but it's severely melting. We went in March so the glacier was dry and everything was visible, didn't rope up and didn't spot any crevasses but I can see how it can be a bit more trouble when it's snowed in. Thanks for watching!
why didnt u guys leave some of your stuff at the hut? or did u. also how was the trail gps? or no ?
Hey. Thanks for watching.
We did leave a few non-valuables at the hut, everything expensive we took with us since the hut is unmanned.
Trail GPS was great, we used AllTrails and it was super accurate 👌🏼