List of first ascents in the Cordillera Blanca

The following list summarizes notable first ascents of mountains and peaks in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Ancash, Peru, in chronological order.

Date [1]PeakHeight (m)Height (ft)RouteClimbersNationalityRef
2 Sep 1908Huascaran N.665521,834Annie Smith Peck, Gabriel Zumtaugwald and Rudolf TaugwalderSwitzerland United States[2]
20 Jul 1932Huascaran S.674622,132Garganta and the NW-faceFranz Bernard, Phillip Borchers, Erwin Hein, Hermann Hoerlin, and Erwin SchneiderAustria Germany[2]
3 Aug 1932Chopicalqui634520,846Southwest RidgePhillip Borchers, Erwin Hein, Hermann Hoerlin, and Erwin SchneiderAustria Germany[2]
12 Sep 1932Huandoy N.639520,866Southern SlopesErwin Hein and Erwin SchneiderAustria[2]
17 Jul 1936Quitaraju603619,820West RidgeErwin Schneider and Arnold AwerzgerGermany[3]
25 Jun 1939Ranrapalca616220,217Northeast ridgeWalter Brecht, Siegfried Rohrer, Karl Schmid y Hans SchweizerGermany[2]
31 Jul 1939Tocllaraju603419,797Northwest RidgeWalter Brecht and Hans SchweizerGermany[4]
Aug 1939Hualcán N.612220,085South RidgeSiegfried Rohrer and Karl SchmidGermany[5]
20 Jul 1948Santa Cruz624120,535Northeastern faceFrédéric Marmillod and Ali Szepessy-SchaurekHungary Switzerland[2]
7 Jul 1952Huantsán636920,896North-Northwest Ice Ridge
(from Huantsan North)		Lionel Terray, Cees G. Egeler and Tom de BooyFrance Netherlands[6]
31 Jul 1956Chacraraju West611220,039Northeastern FaceLionel Terray, Maurice Davaille, Claude Gaudin, Pierre Souriac, Robert SennelierFrance[3]
20 Jun 1957Alpamayo594719,511South RidgeGünter Hauser, Berhard Huhn, Frieder Knauss, and Horst WiedmannWest Germany[7]
24 Jul 1962Tullparaju578718,986West RidgeDavid Bernays, Leif-Norman Patterson and Charles SawyerUnited States[8][9]

See also

Notes

  • Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999, ISBN 978-8489969438
  • Lefebvre, Thierry, L’invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19 (2005).
  • Frederick L. Wolfe, High Summits: 370 Famous Peak First Ascents and Other Significant Events in Mountaineering History, Hugo House Publishers, 2013, ISBN 1936449358 (for a guideline; the book contains many major errors)

References

  1. ↑ An asterisk indicates that this is only the date of the first recorded ascent. There is either evidence for an earlier ascent or earlier ascents are very likely.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lefebvre, Thierry L'invention occidentale de la haute montagne andine, M@ppemonde Vol. 19, p. 16 (2005)
  3. 1 2 Juanjo Tomé, Escaladas en los Andes - Guía de la Cordillera Blanca, Madrid: Desnivel Ediciones, 1999, ISBN 978-8489969438
  4. ↑ "Tocllaraju". Summitpost.org. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
  5. ↑ Ricker, John F. Yuraq Janka: A Guide to the Peruvian Andes, American Alpine Club p. 90 (1977)
  6. ↑ D. F. O. Dangar, Alpine Notes, Alpine Journal Vol. 71, Nr 312-313 p. 145 (1966)
  7. ↑ Jubiläumsexpedition Alpamayo - der schönste Berg der Welt (2014)
  8. ↑ A Survey of Andean Ascents: 1961~1970 (1973)
  9. ↑ Harvard Mountaineering 5(16)(1963),The Harvard Mountaineering Club, p. 19
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