The Andes: A Guide for ClimbersA comprehensive climbing guide to the mountains of The Andes, from Venezuela to Tierra Del Fuego. It features route descriptions for over 300 peaks with over half illustrated by a photo-diagram and full colour maps. |
Contents
Map of South America | 6 |
General advice for travel to the Andes | 12 |
Climbing conditions and hazards | 19 |
Ski Mountaineering | 25 |
Sierra Nevada | 31 |
Sierra Nevada del Cocuy | 38 |
Quito | 44 |
NORTHERN PERU | 55 |
Sajama area Chile and Bolivia | 158 |
PUNA DE ATACAMA CHILE AND ARGENTINA | 167 |
Salta area Argentina | 173 |
Ojos del Salado area Chile and Argentina | 181 |
Pissis and Bonete area Argentina | 191 |
THE HIGH ANDES CHILE AND ARGENTINA | 197 |
Mendoza and Aconcagua area Argentina | 206 |
Santiago and Tupungato area Chile | 215 |
Central Cordillera Blanca including Huascaran | 72 |
Southern Cordillera Blanca and Huantsan | 79 |
Cordillera Huayhuash | 93 |
Lima | 103 |
Cuzco | 110 |
Minor ranges | 121 |
BOLIVIA | 127 |
Cordillera Real | 134 |
Cordillera Quimsa Cruz | 149 |
MAULE AND THE LAKE DISTRICT CHILE AND ARGENTINA | 225 |
The Andean Lake Distinct | 236 |
PATAGONIA CHILE AND ARGENTINA | 245 |
Southern Patagonia Fitzroy and Cerro Torre | 255 |
Tierra del Fuego | 275 |
Historical Notes | 284 |
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Common terms and phrases
ACCESS acclimatisation Aconcagua AD/D AIGM Alpamayo altitude Ancohuma Apolobamba Argentina Argentine side Bariloche base camp BEST MAP ChIGM BIGM Bolivia Calama Catedral Cerro Torre Chachacomani Chile Chilean side climbed easily Cord Cordillera Blanca Cordillera Occidental Cordillera Real couloir crater crevasses cross Cruz Cuzco D/TD days F days N/K days PD easiest easy ascent Ecuador F Puna F/PD Fitzroy follow glacier Grade n/k guidebook height high camp highest peak Huandoy Huaraz Huayhuash Inca Ishinca known Lago Laguna lake Licancabur Lima Llullaillaco MAP ChIGM sheet MAP PIGM moraine mountain Nevado normal route Norte Ojos del Salado Paso Patagonia PD/AD Peru Pico Piedra PIGM map Pissis plateau Plomo Puna Argentina Puna de Atacama Punta range reach refugio road rock San Pedro Santa Santiago scree seracs snow Socompa South steep SW face SW ridge town track traverse Tupungato valley Vilcanota village Volcan walk Yerupajá