Awesome landscape wasn’t the only draw for this trip. It actually all started with a conversation about what to do next, i.e. after the Mont Ventoux climb, and the Alpes d’Huez etape (of the tour the France for those who don’t bike nor have a biking freak in the family). So my husband Christophe came up with this idea of biking up the Paso de Jama, the road that links the Chilean to the Argentinian Altiplano through the Cordillera de los Andes, and culminates at 4250m (the road, not the mountains, they peak nearer 5500)…
So here they are training @ Taltal, at sea level..
…and after a few days of training at 2600 m on the Altiplano, here’s the D day:
on departure, just outside San Pedro
…just a bit to go..
…and about 25km up the road…
..getting very close…
…and there…
…the cheering crowd:
… bravo to our happy madmen…
don’t even try to imagine what’s going to be next…..