Lama Frees Compressor, Bolts Surrendered

Keese Lane

Posted on: January 23, 2012


This Newsflash is an update to Kennedy Kruk Climb "Fair Means" Compressor - Chop Bolts, posted on January 23, 2012.

Alpinist has received confirmation that Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk did indeed chop over a hundred bolts off of the Compressor Route, which they voluntarily surrendered to local police. Police detained the two climbers after "a group of forty people [who] went to lynch the Canadian climber Jason Kruk in the parlor of Miguel Burgos..." Kennedy and Kruk are currently in the mountains with friends. They will prepare a press report in the coming days.

In the meantime, planetmountain.com has reported that David Lama, a climber familiar with Cerro Torre controversies, has successfully free climbed the Compressor Route. Details about Lama's ascent remain scarce though it is known that a film team climbed Cerro Torre via the Ragni Route prior to Lama's free climb.

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Sources: Michael Kennedy (Full disclosure, Michael Kennedy is the father of Hayden Kennedy and Editor-in-Chief of Alpinist.), planetmountain.com, Lacachania.com.ar.

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