A Magical Jungle-Land Of Sport Climbing: Brazil || A World Less Traveled Ep.7

Rio, Brazil. Population six and a half million. Known for its natural setting with the Sugarloaf and the Corcovado and of course the Samba. It's our seventh stop in our world less traveled and our first in South America. We heard about two amazing places for climbing in Brazil and the first one we checked out was a sport climbing area called Cerro do Cipo. Cerro do Cipo is this beautiful village in the back country of Brazil. Very nice and very quiet and very wild in a way that we don't really have in our home countries in France or US. Climbing in Cerro do Cipo for me reminded me a lot about climbing in Romney. The boulder route style fits me well with boulder prom to a rest to a boulder prom. Captain Hook just jumped right out at me because of the intense boulder prom right in the beginning. A lot of sectors sprinkled along some little... My favorite being Amor Incondicional. It's in that tall, narrow, big wall which is probably 30-35 meters and it goes through that gorgeous orange rock. Very easy but very enjoyable and then it gets a little more of a hanging and that's where the business is. It's very cool moves. It was really neat. Like it was just the holds and nothing else. It was very, very pretty. Yeah, mission accomplished. Mission accomplished. That was Amor Incondicional. Our first day we met up with the local developer, Wagner. Super cool cat. Like loved hanging out with him. Loved getting to know him. 30 years ago in Brazil, don't have the people open many routes, drills. The rock is perfect, you know. It's the special limestone because here not have many tufas like Spaniards but the limestone here is many crimps and the marble is special for climbing. Yeah, did I say he wrote the guidebook? Wagner wrote the guidebook to this magical jungle land of sport climbing. Three years ago, I and my friends Felipe and Barão, local climbers, make one new guidebook. 400 routes but now 500 routes. Maybe the next year start to make one new guidebook, you know. The potential here is big for sport climbing, you know. There is so much rock to be climbed around and I just wanted to climb something that I enjoy climbing and finally at the end, like the second to last day, I tried a 8F+, which is called Tic Tac and that was just perfect. It was intense starts with hard committing moves but not too rich, not too intense. And then the end was just 15-20 meters of just enjoy climbing on beautiful rock. We stayed at the Mandala Posada, which was just walking distance to all the climbing. As you go in, one route I and one friend put the boats. One like 8B, beautiful yellow limestone. This route is motivation for the community climber here. Such a cool obvious line to have on this orange wall that just kind of sticks out of the jungle and just an amazing feature with a really, really nice boulder problem and exposed ending. The people need climbers here and they have, I don't know, 50, maybe 50 projects, open projects coming, coming people, climbers coming to Serra do Cipó. Yeah. Our next stop in Brazil was in the big village of Perenopolis, which was very close by the bouldering sector called Cocalzinho. The sandstone in Cocalzinho reminded me of the rock in Rocklands. Just really weird formations, jagged tops. Either it was bad timing or just the weather at that time of the year. It was really hot and pretty humid as well, so we had to do a lot of night sessions. Oh, sweet humidity. Some days we were lucky with good temps, so we were able to put down a few boulders. Once again, we were able to connect very easily with the local climbing scene, just because they're all very connected and very happy and proud and excited to just show other people around. So Yuri, Perenopolis, Cocal lands. Marcel, Perenopolis, Cocal, ghetto. Yo man, climb is amazing, different styles and a good rock, good stone. We have some challenges for all climbers. Let's go, let's do it. You're welcome. Well, we spent just under three weeks sport climbing and bouldering in Brazil. Spending some time in Rio was cool as well, but it was nice to only be there for a few days. And now we're off to our next South American destination, Peru. We've heard there is a lot of potential up in the mountain there, so we're really excited to see what is waiting for us. And you can always follow along on our website or worldestravel.com and check out our blogs from Brazil and from right now. See you later.