Originally Posted by
dickerso
To be honest, I'm not sure if I saw any climbers. I had to look this up, but it seems that climbing the towers is a major undertaking which requires special permission. Certainly they are being climbed but it doesn't seem like something you can just hire a guide for:
http://www.summitpost.org/torre-sur-...l-paine/151366
I've read an account of the first ascent where a British team just beat an Italian one - presumably the origins of the British and Italian camps - and I got the impression that they had rather a hard time so I was wondering whether it was one of those climbs which has subsequently become fairly easy.