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In popular culture.
Cerro Torre was featured in the 1991 film "Scream of Stone", directed by Werner Herzog and starring Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Hans Kammerlander, and Donald Sutherland.
Jon Krakauer, aside from the detailed recounting of the climb of the mountain in his book "Eiger Dreams", mentions it briefly in "Into Thin Air" as one of his earlier difficult ascents (1992): "I'd scaled a frightening, mile-high spike of vertical and overhanging granite called Cerro Torre
that bolts, pitons, fixed ropes and other equipment used by the 1959 expedition is plentiful up to that glacier, but absent thereafter. Nevertheless, Maestri has consistently maintained his version of events, as did Fava, who died in April 2008.
Cerro Torre Compressor Route.
In 1970, Maestri returned to Cerro Torre and climbed a new route on the south-east side of the mountain. Over two seasons he used a petrol-driven compressor, weighing approximately 135 kg (300 pounds), and thousands of