Markus Pucher is someone who has always dreamed big. His latest vision, recurrent and almost verging on being obsessive, is one of the biggest you could ever conjure in Patagonia: to make the first solo winter ascent of Cerro Torre. In 2014, the Austrian mountaineer stunned everyone with his ascent of the Ragni route through a raging storm, and these anything but summer conditions convinced him that his unattainable ambition could perhaps can transform into something tangible.