We had planned to spend most of our time in South America on the Hot Rock Global Challenge rock climbing expedition. Hot Rock is a loosely affiliated and barely organised group of climbers circumnavigating the globe in a big red truck specifically converted for the job. We, along with the majority of its passengers, were joining it for just a fraction of its three-year journey.

We met up in with the Big Red Truck and the expedition team in Ushuaia in Argentina, one of the most Southerly towns in the world. From there we travel to Torres del Paine in Chile for a week and then onto Fitzroy. The zig zagging between Chile and Argentina continues as we search out the best rock to crag and to set up new routes until we enter Bolivia

Our time with Hot Rock officially ends when we reach La Paz but we are already trying to extend that a by a further month.