For my birthday I climbed Huayna Potosi.

It is Bolivia’s most popular mountaineering peak due to ease of access, beauty,
as well as the fact that it is 88m over the magic 6000m
but 26ft under the dread 20,000ft mark after which (some claim)
your brain sells starts dyeing due to lack of oxygen.

For many, including me, this is the first real mountain climbed.

For Huayna Potosi photos 2004 click here.

Rick McCharles <e-mail> has high resolution originals of most of these photos.