Haines Completes Mountain Challenge
Marathon runner and fundraiser Derek Haines has completed his latest challenge for charity by climbing three mountains in Bolivia. Mr. Haines, along with Vico Testori and Barry Yetton, set out for Bolivia to climb Condoriri, Huayna Potosi and Illimani as part of “The Mountains and Marathons Challenge,” to raise money for the Have a Heart Cayman Islands Foundation.
With two of the mountains crossed off their list, they were waiting out bad weather to try to tackle Mount Illimani, but Mr. Haines explained that with conditions this season, combined with a lack of snow and increased hard ice coverage, they were advised that Illimani would be “dangerous and foolhardy” to tackle. Instead, the trio set their sights on the 19,855-foot high volcano, Mount Acotango, on the Chilean border.